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Speaker 1: We've had him on before. It's always great to talk
Speaker 1: to him. Quinton Lake, Rams safety. I wish you played
Speaker 1: at Culver's High, but he's too big time. He played
Speaker 1: it modern day. I'd love to see him as a
Speaker 1: centaur though of course he was a UCA Brewin like
Speaker 1: his father before him. Four seasons in the NFL and
Speaker 1: he's bawling a leader on the Rams defense. Nice extension
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Suffered a dislocated elbow in week eleven,
Speaker 1: which is a scary injury, but he's right back playing.
Speaker 1: We're always happy to have him on, and what a
Speaker 1: great year he's had. Quentin Lake on the Petrosen Money Show.
Speaker 1: What's cracking, Quentin? How are you doing amazing. That was
Speaker 1: that was a great intro. It seems like you you've
Speaker 1: been you've been practicing that.
Speaker 4: That was awesome.
Speaker 1: I practice every day. Quentin. Welcome back, Welcome back, welcome back.
Speaker 1: That's that's me and the mirror. Uh Quentin. Uh. For
Speaker 1: you a guy that's been doing this for a little while, obviously,
Speaker 1: you guys work so hard all year to get to
Speaker 1: this point and deal with the bumps and bruises and
Speaker 1: the ups and downs. What's it like during the week
Speaker 1: when you're right on the edge of it, when you're
Speaker 1: standing on the precipice, is it like walking on area?
Speaker 1: Are you nervous? How does it feel?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: It feels great. You know. The whole season, you go,
Speaker 4: you grind you, you know, sweat. You have so many
Speaker 4: sacrifices during the course of the season, whether it's Trend's family,
Speaker 4: you know, anybody, and but you do it for all.
Speaker 4: You do it off of this moment. You know, you
Speaker 4: look back at how many games we played, how many
Speaker 4: snaps that we played, you know, the ups and downs
Speaker 4: of the season, the heartbreaking losses, the amazing victories. But
Speaker 4: at the same time, all you got to do is
Speaker 4: take it one step at a time, and we've been
Speaker 4: able to do that. You know, what I've been telling
Speaker 4: the guys is understand the magnitude of the game, but
Speaker 4: don't press. You know, there's a reason why we're here.
Speaker 4: It's because we've been able to lock in each and
Speaker 4: every week and handle our business. And now this week
Speaker 4: is just another opportunity to really show the world what
Speaker 4: the Rams are capable of, but honestly show the world
Speaker 4: what each and every person that poured in you, that
Speaker 4: believed in you, you know, show them right, improve them right,
Speaker 4: improve everybody else that downed you wrong.
Speaker 2: It's an idea. Just going back to last week Clinton overtime,
Speaker 2: just remarkable play by Caleb to get that thing into
Speaker 2: overtime on that fourth down throw and just making sure
Speaker 2: you buckle down, you know, after the offense isn't able
Speaker 2: to get it done on it's first possession, knowing it
Speaker 2: then goes to sudden death. Just kind of walk us
Speaker 2: through that interception that you guys were able to secure
Speaker 2: to get that ball to Matthew Stafford and get that win,
Speaker 2: and kind of how you approach a situation like that
Speaker 2: after you know, what was an unbelievable play that nobody
Speaker 2: could have possibly seen coming to get this thing into
Speaker 2: ot in the first place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the play was amazing because we do nightly meetings
Speaker 4: before games and we kind of go over things and
Speaker 4: opportunities that present themselves to allow us to go out
Speaker 4: in there and make plays as defensive backs, and Cam
Speaker 4: Curle and our coach, Coach Aubrey plays and do an
Speaker 4: amazing job of just really buying into the to the preparation.
Speaker 4: And that was exactly what it was. Cam Curle, we
Speaker 4: had a nightly meeting. We saw an opportunity to say, hey,
Speaker 4: if you get this look and you get this route
Speaker 4: and we're in this cover ridge, you know, play it
Speaker 4: like this and you'll make a play. And the stars
Speaker 4: aligned and Cam Crow made one hell of a play
Speaker 4: and we knew if we gave the ball back to
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford, he's going to make some magic happen. We've
Speaker 4: seen it over the course of the whole season and
Speaker 4: there's a reason why he has a lot of fourth
Speaker 4: quarter comebacks, a lot of you know, he's so steady
Speaker 4: and high pressure moments. And like I said, Cam Crow,
Speaker 4: he made really it was the game saving play, you know,
Speaker 4: to put to get the ball back. Make it an
Speaker 4: amazing catch. First of all, that was an awesome case.
Speaker 4: He looked like a receiver out there. And then to
Speaker 4: give the ball back to Matthew Stafford for them to
Speaker 4: you know, ended in oc It was awesome And I'm
Speaker 4: so happy for him because I know, you know, the
Speaker 4: magnitude of that play, the magnitude really of the game.
Speaker 4: He stepped up to the moment, no doubt.
Speaker 2: What was it like? Just you know, we made a
Speaker 2: big deal of it out here. We're in La I mean,
Speaker 2: you're you're born raised here, so I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: are you at high school here? I mean, you know
Speaker 2: what it's like. It's supposed to be what nine degrees
Speaker 2: feels like negative too? Does that affect the way you
Speaker 2: play it all? Do you have to shake it off?
Speaker 2: Do you have all the heating equipment on the sidelines
Speaker 2: to make sure you get warm? Kind of as the
Speaker 2: game and then you got to play an extra period
Speaker 2: on top of it? Is it keeps dropping in temperature?
Speaker 2: What is weather due to the football player out there
Speaker 2: in a game like that?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 4: I mean, it was cold. I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 4: and say it was cold. But at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, you know, everybody who's out there on the
Speaker 4: field has to play in it, and we understood, like
Speaker 4: your mindset and mentality has to be so strong that
Speaker 4: the external factors and environment can affect your play. And
Speaker 4: I think we did a great example of, you know,
Speaker 4: being able to overcome the challenges that happened with the environment.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was cold, Yeah it was in the single digits.
Speaker 4: Yeah you know it was snowing. But at the end
Speaker 4: of the day, you look at the defensive side of
Speaker 4: the ball, on the offensive side of the ball, we
Speaker 4: did what we needed to to win that game. A
Speaker 4: couple fourth down stops, interceptions, you know, big players on offense,
Speaker 4: you know, good solid runs. It was great and that's
Speaker 4: just really a credit to our mindset and mentality going
Speaker 4: into that week saying, either cold's not going to bother
Speaker 4: us and we're gonna be ready.
Speaker 1: The one and only Quentin Lake joining us right now
Speaker 1: on the Petros and Money Show. Big game coming up,
Speaker 1: Rams versus Seahawks, and this young man is a big
Speaker 1: part of it. Overcoming that that dislocated elbow. You can
Speaker 1: do that injury and have some really bad stuff happened,
Speaker 1: but you didn't have that much damage so you were
Speaker 1: able to come back. But that's a scary injury. Quentin,
Speaker 1: How does it feel right now? How did you battle
Speaker 1: through that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the biggest thing for me was understanding and hoping
Speaker 4: and beleeding in my team. You know, it was tough
Speaker 4: and it was scary in that moment. You know, you
Speaker 4: get it, You're you're in that position a lot, you know,
Speaker 4: where you're engaged in a blocker. You put your arm
Speaker 4: out and you try to make a tackle. But unfortunately
Speaker 4: my arm was just you know, in the wrong place
Speaker 4: at the wrong time. But through you know, the really
Speaker 4: month and a half of rehab that I was going to,
Speaker 4: I always leaned on really my teammates, my family, and
Speaker 4: really God. You know, there's a there's a Bible verse
Speaker 4: Matthew six thirty four that says, therefore tomorrow will therefore
Speaker 4: don't worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will worry about itself. Today
Speaker 4: has enough problem of its own, and that the context
Speaker 4: in that is just worry about today, you know, worry
Speaker 4: about the things and be and live in the present moment.
Speaker 4: You know, I was there were moments where I was like, man,
Speaker 4: I can't wait to get back, or I'm trying to
Speaker 4: rushing to get back. But I always had to remind
Speaker 4: myself just attack today, you know, focus on how can
Speaker 4: I be the best version of myself? How can I
Speaker 4: attack this day of rehab. And once you continue to
Speaker 4: stack days, once you continue to put good days of
Speaker 4: rehab together, and you see you get more range of
Speaker 4: motion in your elbow, you get more, You're able to
Speaker 4: do more. You're able to start running, You're able to
Speaker 4: start lifting and you know, pushing weights. Those are the
Speaker 4: small incremental spets that give you the confidence to come back.
Speaker 4: And you know, when I came back, I felt like
Speaker 4: I had a lot of confidence. Shout out to you know, everybody,
Speaker 4: the training staff and everybody that I worked with. But
Speaker 4: like we talked about and you guys mentioned, it was
Speaker 4: a scary injury, but that at the same time, I
Speaker 4: had a lot of confidence and I knew, if this
Speaker 4: team handles business, I'll be able to come back and
Speaker 4: play meetingful football in January and hopefully in February two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Quinton, you mentioned this team, you had the team
Speaker 2: last year. You know, It's just it was really it
Speaker 2: felt like a coin flip man in that divisional round.
Speaker 2: Does it feel different this year? When you went into
Speaker 2: the playoffs, you go in, you know, as a wildcard
Speaker 2: team this time, as opposed to a division winner having
Speaker 2: to win three games on the road potentially in order
Speaker 2: to make it to the Super Bowl. Just kind of
Speaker 2: were there's similar vibes because it certainly felt like that
Speaker 2: team last year could have won a Super Bowl as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it is. It is a little bit
Speaker 4: of similar vibes. But I would say the difference between
Speaker 4: this team and last year's team is this is probably
Speaker 4: the most connected team that I've been on my four
Speaker 4: years in the NFL. You know, everybody wants to see
Speaker 4: everybody else around them succeed. You know, we have guys
Speaker 4: that just mesh well, and you have when you have
Speaker 4: good people around you, you want to play for them.
Speaker 4: We have an amazing coaching staff, amazing players, and really
Speaker 4: just the organization is amazing in general. But it's crazy
Speaker 4: because you know, there's a little bit of history repeating itself.
Speaker 4: You look at last year Divisional we didn't have necessarily
Speaker 4: we were so close to getting and being able to
Speaker 4: host an NFC championship at home. But luckily this year
Speaker 4: we handled you know, business for the first two games
Speaker 4: and now we get a chance to play that play
Speaker 4: in an NFC championship. Although it's not at home, we
Speaker 4: still get that opportunity and now it's just being able
Speaker 4: to capitalize on that. This is probably and I will say,
Speaker 4: this is my favorite team that I've been on. You know,
Speaker 4: just the group of guys that we have, everybody in
Speaker 4: the building. I mean, it's amazing to see and everybody
Speaker 4: has their own story, which I like to So it's
Speaker 4: going to be, you know, great on Sunday, but it's
Speaker 4: already been one one hell of a journey.
Speaker 1: We have The Kicker on a little later today, Quentin
Speaker 1: this hour, Harrison Nevis is going to join us the
Speaker 1: Thicker Kicker, which I believe is something that he enjoys
Speaker 1: being called. I mean, how thick is he? Is he
Speaker 1: that thick in person?
Speaker 4: I mean yeah, probably his legs for sure, but you
Speaker 4: know he's been knocking it through. He's an awesome guy,
Speaker 4: and yeah, that that nickname just fits him. Man, he's
Speaker 4: been I mean, he can he can kick fifties forties
Speaker 4: and knock him true anytime. So I'm glad. Definitely guy
Speaker 4: we picked him up and it's shown. I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: he kicked the game winner last week, this past Sunday,
Speaker 4: and you know, hopefully he'll have some other opportunities to
Speaker 4: you know, just kick him straight through. So yeah, tell
Speaker 4: him when you guys get him on, tell him. I
Speaker 4: said hello too, Oh.
Speaker 1: We will the thicker kicker, A big country music fan.
Speaker 1: I believe new to LA. You are not new to LA,
Speaker 1: as Matt pointed out your time at UCLA. Of course,
Speaker 1: has Bob Chesney sent you the former player packet? Uh
Speaker 1: that you're getting like, uh that they're reaching out to
Speaker 1: everybody anything like that? Quinton? Are they leaving you alone
Speaker 1: because you're balling so hard in the league?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they did save me your care package. I still haven't.
Speaker 4: I'll open up after the season. You know, this is funny.
Speaker 4: It was actually before Bob got that though. Oh so,
Speaker 4: and I got a good relationship with with the guys
Speaker 4: in EQ. But uh, yeah, you know what it's it's
Speaker 4: always good to go back to U C. L A.
Speaker 4: I'll say, what's up to the guys, But you know,
Speaker 4: I'm excited for what what's gonna go on over there
Speaker 4: with the Bruins? Should we should be going? They got
Speaker 4: a good coach, so all.
Speaker 2: Right, let's uh let's get one in here.
Speaker 1: Tim Skipper's package right before he left.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I got I got the Skipper package, and hopefully
Speaker 4: I'll get the the new, the new, new and approved
Speaker 4: package soon.
Speaker 1: Double up, double.
Speaker 2: One for Sunday Clinton. Just general kind of what are
Speaker 2: what are you looking at? It's your third time, it's
Speaker 2: the visional game, you know, and six interceptions in the
Speaker 2: first two games, a win, a loss, and kind of
Speaker 2: a what are we looking at in this contest? It
Speaker 2: feels like the two of you, two teams are are
Speaker 2: pretty darn close.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just gonna be a heavyweight fight. I mean,
Speaker 4: everybody's looking at this. There's a snowstorm going so a
Speaker 4: lot of people on the East Coast are gonna be
Speaker 4: snowed in, probably gonna break record viewerships because everybody's gonna
Speaker 4: be at home and wearing the primetime slot, which I love,
Speaker 4: you know, more eyes on us, and for a lot
Speaker 4: of people, this is gonna be people super Bowl. I
Speaker 4: mean you look at, really, two of the best teams
Speaker 4: in the NFL just going at it, and two teams
Speaker 4: that know each other well, two teams that obviously has
Speaker 4: played each other twice, and there's been a one point
Speaker 4: score differential in the yard totally yards has been close too,
Speaker 4: so it's going to be an amazing game. But on
Speaker 4: top of that, I will say this for myself, I've
Speaker 4: only played two quarters in this matchup twice in this
Speaker 4: total matchup, So i played two quarters in the first
Speaker 4: game and that's when I got injured in week eleven,
Speaker 4: and then I missed the Thursday night game. So I'm
Speaker 4: really excited for this one to really just be able to,
Speaker 4: you know, help my team call out there and cure victory.
Speaker 1: You get a gallop out there like the Culver City Centaur,
Speaker 1: half man, half horse. Quentin Lake, Good luck to you, Quentin,
Speaker 1: God bless you and your family. Thank you for joining
Speaker 1: us and being so thoughtful in the middle of something
Speaker 1: very important going on. Stay healthy and good luck to you.
Speaker 1: May you guys find yourselves in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you guy so much having me on. I
Speaker 4: appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Quentin Lake, lovely young man. Ready for the challenges that
Speaker 1: arise and ready to open up that Tim Skipper care
Speaker 1: package and awaiting the Bob Chesney care package. Tim Kats
Speaker 1: has to create his own UCLA care package at the
Speaker 1: outlets in Cavazon cavon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nice little under armor polo package.
Speaker 1: Do you like it? I bought it myself.
Speaker 2: Give you a discount on the potluck meal out here
Speaker 2: and lot c thanks. Oh how about a tumbler and
Speaker 2: some stickers are throwing there for myself. Oh that's a
Speaker 2: bad time. There you go, got that right at the register.
Speaker 1: Huh, Quentin Lake, thank you, thank you. We will have
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Speaker 2: Of it Well, NFL Power Hour Pee, Let's focus on
Speaker 2: the NFC Championship Game Super Bowl participant in town. The
Speaker 2: last time they met, Matthew Stafford, likely his signature performance
Speaker 2: of his MVP resume, torched the number one defense in
Speaker 2: the NFL four one hundred and fifty seven yards, three touchdowns,
Speaker 2: zero interceptions, nine point three per attempt. PUKA was unstoppable,
Speaker 2: sixteen targets, twelve catches, two hundred twenty five yards nineteen
Speaker 2: per grab, two touchdowns. Uh, Seattle did what they do.
Speaker 2: They took away the run. You've talked about it repeatedly.
Speaker 2: That is what Sean McVay wants to do. Everything operates
Speaker 2: and revolves around his run game. But McVeigh used someone
Speaker 2: in the conversation as the best player in football, not
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford Pooka Nakua to even out that battle. You
Speaker 2: look at all of the snaps and there were things
Speaker 2: that were apparent and how productive he was. He lined
Speaker 2: up all over the field, He was in motion a lot.
Speaker 2: Early in the game, he got Devin Weatherspoon on him.
Speaker 2: Witherspoon one of the best cover corners in the league,
Speaker 2: and McVeigh got after that immediately started moving him away
Speaker 2: from Witherspoon onto Josh Job and coverage, and that is
Speaker 2: where he went to work. Fourth and five, he makes
Speaker 2: a great grab in front of Joe at the Seattle
Speaker 2: thirtyffering he is and boy did he suffer. Let me
Speaker 2: tell you, you want to talk about wearing it and
Speaker 2: still having to keep your conviction that you could keep
Speaker 2: doing this. That was this game repeatedly, he beats the
Speaker 2: opposite corner fifty three yards for a big gainer, a
Speaker 2: forty three yard touchdown, nearly a sixty two yard touchdown
Speaker 2: tackled at the three yard line against the safety Kobe Bryant.
Speaker 2: Point being that I would assume that the Seahawks coach
Speaker 2: Mike McDonald, who runs the same defense Jesse Minner did
Speaker 2: here with the Chargers. Not a lot of mandaman, not
Speaker 2: a lot of moving your best corner to shadow their
Speaker 2: best receiver. But you go back and watch that game,
Speaker 2: and that's probably the only way it's going to happen,
Speaker 2: because unless it was Witherspoon on him when Stafford tried
Speaker 2: to go to Nicooa but he was covered or went
Speaker 2: into Koula and the pass was broken up, when you've
Speaker 2: got a berth to the Super Bowl on the line,
Speaker 2: I would be very surprised if there was not a
Speaker 2: little bit of an adjustment coming from McDonald, considering the
Speaker 2: drastic difference in Nikoua's production when Devin was on him
Speaker 2: versus when he wasn't. The number three rush defense raking
Speaker 2: is as advertised, and good thing about the Rams in
Speaker 2: that game is they did not abandon the run. They
Speaker 2: had fifty three dropbacks for Stafford four hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: seven yards, as we mentioned, but they still ran a
Speaker 2: thirty nine times. It just was not efficient. Credit McVeigh
Speaker 2: for trying to keep it balanced. Three point two per
Speaker 2: carry overall, Kyron Williams three per carry on twenty three
Speaker 2: for seventy yards along of eight Blake Korum fourteen for
Speaker 2: forty eight at three point four with a long of nine.
Speaker 2: I would assume they're gonna have to get that to
Speaker 2: pick up if they're gonna win that game on Sunday.
Speaker 2: But really, going through those two games, it feels like
Speaker 2: this is less about the rams and what they need
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 1: Did you grind that tape, Matt? Is that I was able.
Speaker 2: I was able to grind the tape, pe and you
Speaker 2: don't need to grind the tape because we mentioned this
Speaker 2: in NaNs on Wednesday. What you see is there's one
Speaker 2: X factor in both of these games, and it's Sam
Speaker 2: Darnold throwing picks. He threw two touchdowns and six interceptions
Speaker 2: in the two games they won. One of those dominated
Speaker 2: the box score, in the other they lost twenty one
Speaker 2: to nineteen. In a game he threw four interceptions and
Speaker 2: zero four interceptions, zero touchdowns. They gave the Rams a
Speaker 2: first in goal from the three, a turnover at their
Speaker 2: own twenty five the Seattle twenty five. Both resulted in
Speaker 2: two of the Rams three touchdowns that day. The rest
Speaker 2: of their drives turnover on downs. They had a ten
Speaker 2: play touchdown drive one two four to three and outs,
Speaker 2: a fumble, and a four play, five play and five
Speaker 2: play punt. The interceptions is what gave them that. With
Speaker 2: four interceptions and the Seahawks got the ball with a
Speaker 2: minute forty one left at their own one yard line,
Speaker 2: Donald was able to drive them to the Rams forty
Speaker 2: three and Myers who was there? Jason Myers, their field
Speaker 2: goal kicker career long of sixty one, attempted a sixty
Speaker 2: one yarder, so winnable game, but ended up missing the
Speaker 2: kick as time expired. Again. That is a four interception
Speaker 2: game from Sam Darnold, But that Seattle defense was so
Speaker 2: good dominated time of possession thirty eight to twenty two,
Speaker 2: first downs twenty six to twelve yards four to fourteen
Speaker 2: to two forty nine, but the four interceptions the difference.
Speaker 2: Donald had fourteen picks this year, six of them over
Speaker 2: forty percent were against this. Chris Shula led Rams defense,
Speaker 2: so stop the run forced Donald to throw create those
Speaker 2: turnovers that he has been so apt to offer up
Speaker 2: this season. And there's a lot of scar tissue there
Speaker 2: that you can pounce on. Not just these two games this.
Speaker 1: Year, but right now, you wish that I saw it.
Speaker 2: I wish that you'd seen it.
Speaker 1: You wish that I saw scar tissue that you wish.
Speaker 2: That I issued that I wish you saw, mister, know
Speaker 2: it all not just these two games be but that's
Speaker 2: scar tissue that I wish you saw. It goes back
Speaker 2: to last year's wild card. Remember Sam Donald took a
Speaker 2: fourteen win Minnesota team into Los Angeles in the Wildcard
Speaker 2: round and promptly took nine sacks through an interception lost
Speaker 2: to fumble, and the Vikings were hammered twenty seven to nine.
Speaker 2: After that fourteen win season, they win that game and
Speaker 2: maybe another, and it's likely Darnald is back in Minnesota
Speaker 2: this year for the Vikings. Instead, he had that wildcard game,
Speaker 2: the high stakes game the week prior against the Lions
Speaker 2: that determined who won the division and was the number
Speaker 2: one seed and who went to the wildcard round. He
Speaker 2: played awful football as well, and that is why they
Speaker 2: became the wildcard and that is probably why he is
Speaker 2: in Seattle. He has had a Pro Bowl caliber season,
Speaker 2: but again, interceptions are still lurking on the Sam Donald resume,
Speaker 2: the oblique injury that he is nursing. Did not have
Speaker 2: to do a lot last week, just seventeen dropbacks, twelve completions,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty four yards and a touchdown, but
Speaker 2: the team still scored forty one points. Kenneth Walker rushed
Speaker 2: for three touchdowns. They got a kick return touchdown from
Speaker 2: Rashid Shaheed to open up the game. The Rams in
Speaker 2: that last game in Week sixteen that decided and this
Speaker 2: is probably a big thing for Sam Darnald, you know,
Speaker 2: considering he lost that game that decided the division last
Speaker 2: year and had to go on the road as a
Speaker 2: wild card team. He ends up winning it this year,
Speaker 2: a game the Rams had a ninety nine percent win probability,
Speaker 2: up sixteen points with minutes left to play, and yet
Speaker 2: somehow Sam Darnold got the victory.
Speaker 1: Wow, how's that even possible?
Speaker 2: Matt.
Speaker 1: It's almost like that number didn't mean anything at the.
Speaker 2: End of the you know, it means everything until it doesn't.
Speaker 2: The Rams got a few demons of their own to exercise.
Speaker 1: They have nothing to blow it at the end of
Speaker 1: the game because mcveigh's too cute with his play calling.
Speaker 2: Ways have you been grinding tape two? Haven't you?
Speaker 1: No? I just know a flip play on the goal line.
Speaker 1: It doesn't work, looks really bad.
Speaker 2: They have not been sharp in the first two rounds,
Speaker 2: but they have managed to buckle down when they needed to.
Speaker 2: The interception to save the game in overtime in Chicago
Speaker 2: last week, a game winning drive after falling behind in
Speaker 2: Carolina with two minutes to go. That probably is not
Speaker 2: going to work against a team as good as Seattle
Speaker 2: with this defense, the best unit left in these playoffs,
Speaker 2: better perhaps slightly than the Rams offense. It'll be a
Speaker 2: hell of a showdown. It's the best offense left in
Speaker 2: the postseason against the best defense left in the postseason.
Speaker 2: Rams oh versus Seattle du and speaking of that Seattle D.
Speaker 2: I will take the points and bank on the Rams
Speaker 2: getting to Darnold again and playing in Super Bowl sixty
Speaker 2: as heavy favorites over the Patriots or the Bronco.
Speaker 1: I just hope nobody falls off the stage while Stafford's
Speaker 1: accepting his praise from all ten thousands in town.
Speaker 2: Now listen, if someone does, Stafford is going to go.
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford is going to go help them, but his
Speaker 2: wife is going to tell him not to leave it. Matthew,
Speaker 2: leave it. We need you over here. But there's a
Speaker 2: maiden in distress.
Speaker 1: That's not what happened with matt Stafford, he said. I said,
Speaker 1: to believe it. He walked away. I said, leave it.
Speaker 1: White History.
Speaker 2: Quickly to the game that we will have here kick
Speaker 2: off at noon on Sunday, Patriots versus Broncos. Sadly, bo
Speaker 2: Nick's broke an ankle on the penultimate play in the
Speaker 2: victory over the Bills, so it will be Jarrett Stidham
Speaker 2: that will be at quarterback. I saw what it looks
Speaker 2: like against the Patriots when you have a dominant defense
Speaker 2: but no offense, and the Broncos defense is as good
Speaker 2: as the Seahawks, darn near close to it, it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: The Chargers defense was lights out against Drake May. They
Speaker 2: allowed just sixteen points. They forced an interception, they forced
Speaker 2: a lost fumble, and they could not do a damn
Speaker 2: thing with it because their offense was not able to
Speaker 2: execute against this. Mike Rabel coach Patriots de Texans were
Speaker 2: the same. Houston's up ten to seven in the second quarter.
Speaker 2: They force a fumble by Drake May and C. J.
Speaker 2: Stroud throws three interceptions in four possessions. You blink and
Speaker 2: they are down twenty one to ten. So I will
Speaker 2: go Patriots to get the win. Quite a Patriots team
Speaker 2: that was four and thirteen last year is going to
Speaker 2: be in Super Bowl sixty in two weeks, perhaps taking
Speaker 2: on the Rams a rematch of the Jyrup.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a foregone conclusion to you, Matt Well,
Speaker 1: I said I gotta be in a Super Bowl. I mean,
Speaker 1: we had the game on the station. You telling people
Speaker 1: not to listen. You're telling us what's gonna happen. Tony
Speaker 1: Romo telling us what's gonna happen. People don't want to know.
Speaker 2: I could say I think this is what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: But if I just say it's gonna happen, then people
Speaker 2: know that's what I think. Broncos, Sorry, would I like
Speaker 2: it to be Seahawks? Broncos? Sure, Let's see if we
Speaker 2: can get our first ever zero touchdown super Bowl. You know,
Speaker 2: a nice three to two or six to three win
Speaker 2: would be something, But I don't envision that happening. I
Speaker 2: think it'll end up being Rams Patriots in Super Bowl sixty,
Speaker 2: which I still believe you will be able to be.
Speaker 2: You will be able to hear here Sunday, February eighth,
Speaker 2: the national broadcast of the Super Bowl, even if the
Speaker 2: Rams are in it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't either, but I would assume you wait, super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I'm checking with the judges, and the judges say yes
Speaker 1: the Rams. Yes, national broadcast would play here.
Speaker 2: We just have to play the visit Rwanda feed.
Speaker 1: Oh it's my favorite feed. We'll be back with more
Speaker 1: petros and money, and they'll turn the machetes from each
Speaker 1: other to the coffee beans. We'll have Harrison me this
Speaker 1: Rams kicking sensation will join us next. Yes, the thicker
Speaker 1: kicker with two c's in thick, because that's how the
Speaker 1: kids like to spell it. Because if you like them
Speaker 1: thick with about that, well, I wouldn't say that. Southern
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Speaker 2: M I z co ou he said it.
Speaker 1: I'll be damned, he said it. Joining us right now,
Speaker 1: a young man that has grabbed the hearts and minds
Speaker 1: of people way beyond Ventura County and northern Los Angeles
Speaker 1: and in the entire LA basin. He came from Missoo.
Speaker 1: He's bounced around a little, but he kicked four years
Speaker 1: at missou Zoo and now the Thicker Kicker as they
Speaker 1: call him, has taken over LA and helped carry the
Speaker 1: Rams to the championship game. Joining us now in your
Speaker 1: Southern California celebrity Hotline brought to you by Toyota, is
Speaker 1: Harrison MeVis, the kicker for the Rams. Very exciting big
Speaker 1: game coming up this weekend, and we're proud to have
Speaker 1: him taking LA by storm. What's cracking? Harrison? Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show. How are you.
Speaker 4: How's it going? Oh?
Speaker 1: Everything's pretty good?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 1: Oh We're very thrilled to have you, and it's been
Speaker 1: fun watching you and your story is a great story. Obviously,
Speaker 1: whenever the NFL playoffs get this late, a lot of
Speaker 1: stories start to emerge and and a great character is revealed.
Speaker 1: Just tell us a little bit about what the year
Speaker 1: has been like for you and what a whirlwind it's been.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's been different for sure, just starting you know,
Speaker 5: obviously I didn't started off the year off that the
Speaker 5: UFL with the Birmingham Stallions the spring did really well,
Speaker 5: then signed with the Jets with them through preseason in
Speaker 5: few two weeks and then and now I'm here halfway
Speaker 5: through the year and Rams kicked me up and man,
Speaker 5: I mean exactly where I feel like I should be
Speaker 5: and I'm helping the same win. So it's been it's
Speaker 5: been a lot.
Speaker 2: Of fun, Harrison. They pick you up in November. For
Speaker 2: for people that don't know, it's one thing to be
Speaker 2: in a practice squad or whatever, like what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Uh until the Rams make that call and you land
Speaker 2: on their practice squad and then a couple days later
Speaker 2: or kicking in a big win over the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, just staying ready for the moment, and
Speaker 5: even when, like even at the Jets, you know, I
Speaker 5: was preparing to play like I was playing on that Sunday.
Speaker 5: So it's just preparing, continuing to do the same routine,
Speaker 5: kicking three days a week, and just getting that mindset
Speaker 5: ready to play, play a game and help a team
Speaker 5: win whatever that may be.
Speaker 2: Is it hard when you're waiting for that call and
Speaker 2: it's already November, because you know, we always hear it's
Speaker 2: a very mental game, a mental position. I should say, Uh,
Speaker 2: how do you keep yourself ready? What is it that
Speaker 2: you're you're keeping an eye? Are you watching football? You're
Speaker 2: watching red zone every week? Are you following box scores?
Speaker 2: Like what are you doing to kind of keep tabs
Speaker 2: on who might be calling you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm watching. I watch a lot of football. I
Speaker 5: just was constantly watching games on Sunday, Monday, you know,
Speaker 5: in those Thursday night games. So it just just watching
Speaker 5: a lot of football, staying already, keep taking it one
Speaker 5: day at a time because he's never known what's gonna happen,
Speaker 5: and it only takes one opportunity, And you know, I
Speaker 5: think that's that's kind of where I jumped at it.
Speaker 1: So football players do move around a little bit. Kickers
Speaker 1: move around more than most football players, and kicking is
Speaker 1: kind of the same everywhere, I would imagine, but the
Speaker 1: culture of a franchise is different. What do you notice
Speaker 1: is different about the Rams from other places that you've been.
Speaker 1: Why is Sean McVay such a successful guy?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's been a blast. Definitely different
Speaker 5: from obviously a couple of different teams that I was on.
Speaker 5: This team is very connected. It's very much so, a
Speaker 5: very close brotherhood. Everyone's rooting on each other. We're i mean,
Speaker 5: winning solves everything. We've won a lot of games, so
Speaker 5: I think, uh, I think we're just it's just a
Speaker 5: very tight knit group. And again, and give credit to Sean,
Speaker 5: John Gun's done a fantastic job and it's unbelievable watch
Speaker 5: of him work and miss coaching staff they're there. It's
Speaker 5: a fantastic group.
Speaker 2: You kicked in the preseason before, but kind of take
Speaker 2: us through that. That first game, it's a it's a
Speaker 2: division game. You're you're playing the most competitive division in
Speaker 2: the NFL, and you go, I think forty nine ers
Speaker 2: and then Seahawks was the next week. Just kind of
Speaker 2: what was what was working through you? And and did
Speaker 2: it help that it was all extra points that first game?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I think, uh yeah, I think you're
Speaker 5: obviously I think it was good good to get in.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: NFC is obviously a tough conference this year. Every game matters,
Speaker 5: and every game is going to be close. So every
Speaker 5: kick matter is in a sense. So whether that's Pats
Speaker 5: shield goals, my mindset's it's all the same. I mean
Speaker 5: it's Pats are thirty three yards away, so I mean, yeah,
Speaker 5: the same as most field Gles's about the average Feld goals.
Speaker 5: That's uh, you can't take anything for granted, any tackets,
Speaker 5: Like everythils the same, whether that's a Pat or a
Speaker 5: six yard goo goal.
Speaker 4: So that's the mindset, you.
Speaker 1: Know, Harrison, Harrison me miss the Thicker Kicker. Of course,
Speaker 1: everybody in LA is coming to know him. Joining us
Speaker 1: right now on the Petros and Money Show. The Rams
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, very exciting against the Seahawks, It's going
Speaker 1: to pop off. It's gonna be a wild game. It's
Speaker 1: going to come down to something crazy, and I bet
Speaker 1: you the Thicker Kicker is going to be involved. And
Speaker 1: Harrison is ready for the moment. But it is a
Speaker 1: lonely life as a kicker harrison, not just a moving
Speaker 1: from team to team, but also you know, the skill
Speaker 1: guys can do their seven on seven and run around
Speaker 1: in their underwear, and the offensive and defensive line guys
Speaker 1: can go work on the different machines and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But do you have a kicker buddy when you're preparing
Speaker 1: in the off season and in different places or you
Speaker 1: always all alone? You know?
Speaker 5: When I obviously I was now with the Jads, I was,
Speaker 5: I went back to Colombia, Missouri, That's where I'm at,
Speaker 5: and I trained on my own. I trained with my
Speaker 5: brother a little bit as well, he's kicking too. I
Speaker 5: did a little bit of TrackMan work, so just getting
Speaker 5: a ball, speed, ball height, line of the scrimmage and
Speaker 5: all that sort of work. So yeah, no, just kind
Speaker 5: of a lot on my own and just continuing to
Speaker 5: train and dial in everything that I you know, set
Speaker 5: goals for early in the year.
Speaker 1: Do you listen to music when you're out there kicking
Speaker 1: by yourself or do you just let nature take over
Speaker 1: and the boom of your foot on the ball. What's
Speaker 1: it like out there?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I have I have listened to music. I
Speaker 5: got a jbl'll boom box, I take out their men occasion,
Speaker 5: and you know you can put crowd noise, you can
Speaker 5: put whatever you want music, country music, any any type
Speaker 5: of any.
Speaker 1: Of that sort country music.
Speaker 4: Why not have fun? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Harrison, let's get to the big one forty two
Speaker 2: yards over time. How it's over time and now it's
Speaker 2: sudden death. So I assume you're prepping yourself as soon
Speaker 2: as that interception is secured. Kind of as we talked
Speaker 2: about a second ago. You know, just the mental side
Speaker 2: of the game. What are you doing to get prepared
Speaker 2: for that kick in those conditions with that much at stake?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think you know, it comes back
Speaker 5: to great players don't rise to the occasion. They fall
Speaker 5: back on their training. As drink Witz would say, Yuzuri,
Speaker 5: I've been getting ready for that moment since since I
Speaker 5: started kicking, and it's all just about trusting your training
Speaker 5: and trusting that muscle memory that I have. I wouldn't
Speaker 5: say that it was that moment that we were in
Speaker 5: sudden death when I was getting ready for that. I've
Speaker 5: stayed ready and I've been ready for that moment, and
Speaker 5: it's just another field goal, and it's just me and
Speaker 5: the ball, so I just gotta put the ball through
Speaker 5: the up right. So that's that's kind of where I
Speaker 5: was at.
Speaker 1: Speaking of your coach, one of our guys here interviewed him,
Speaker 1: coach drank Witz, for a game on the radio National Radio,
Speaker 1: and at the end of the interview he said, you
Speaker 1: know m I Z. And we didn't know that you're
Speaker 1: supposed to say, you know my you know zo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we didn't know that. Is that like a thing or
Speaker 1: is that something you guys started doing like we had?
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been to Columbia, but I was not
Speaker 1: aware that that is that that's how we communicate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I.
Speaker 5: Mean that's uh, that's our that's like our thing. That's
Speaker 5: like the school's uh schools little thing that we do.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of schools do stuff like that.
Speaker 5: But that's what we've done.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you know we we we ended up
Speaker 1: looking pretty stupid in front of drink with very unfortunate bro.
Speaker 5: Oh that's funny.
Speaker 2: How often did last one for you? Harrison? How often
Speaker 2: do you throw an M I Z out there? How
Speaker 2: often does that happen in your daily life these days?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I saw out occasionally whenever I see fans,
Speaker 5: it was like, you know, everyone's there's Tiger fans all over.
Speaker 5: So occasionally you'll get at a game, you'll get obviously,
Speaker 5: when I'm back in Columbia, you'll have to throw it
Speaker 5: out there, so I.
Speaker 4: Do it quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tiger's never sleep. Love it all right, great Harrison mevs.
Speaker 1: We wish you lucky young man. It's been great to
Speaker 1: see your rise and your success and may you kick
Speaker 1: for many many years here in the city of Los Angeles.
Speaker 5: M I Z appreciate it. Thank you, Zel you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said it go all right, we go, We'll
Speaker 1: be back, mort Petro said Money. Another hour of great
Speaker 1: sports talk on AM five seventy LA Sports. That was
Speaker 1: our NFL Hour Power featuring Quentin Lake, Harrison Mevs. An
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