WEBVTT - GMFB Thursday Hour 1: Chiefs-Bills questions! Super Bowl significance, NFL Trivia 0:00:04.428 --> 0:00:06.668 Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in 0:00:06.748 --> 0:00:21.628 partnership with iHeartRadio. 0:00:22.388 --> 0:00:24.108 Good Morning Football. 0:00:25.348 --> 0:00:27.308 That's right, this is Good Morning Football. We have brought 0:00:27.308 --> 0:00:29.308 to you by Old Trapper Beech Jurkey live in LA 0:00:29.308 --> 0:00:32.308 and New York. As always, It's Thursday, January twenty third. 0:00:33.068 --> 0:00:36.468 Championship games this weekend. Here's off Our Bush Vamilla. There's 0:00:36.508 --> 0:00:39.548 Pretty Schrager, There's Kyle Brant. I'm Jamie Rdall. Of course, 0:00:39.748 --> 0:00:42.188 joy and elation setting in to find out which two 0:00:42.188 --> 0:00:43.668 teams will be going to New Orleans in a couple 0:00:43.708 --> 0:00:45.988 of weeks. Also some anxiety and sweating the fact that 0:00:46.028 --> 0:00:48.228 there is no football to be played in March, in 0:00:48.268 --> 0:00:49.308 April and May and June. 0:00:49.628 --> 0:00:50.268 Peter, I just. 0:00:50.228 --> 0:00:54.388 Want to check do Schrager's NFL Trivia continue on in 0:00:54.428 --> 0:00:57.148 the postseason, because we have it today and I need 0:00:57.268 --> 0:00:58.868 just like a light at the end of the tunnel. 0:01:00.348 --> 0:01:01.348 No, we keep going. 0:01:01.388 --> 0:01:05.588 We're fifty two weeks a year, Jay, so don't worry. 0:01:05.588 --> 0:01:06.108 There will be. 0:01:06.068 --> 0:01:09.668 Trivia every single week. We will be doing Jaguars backup 0:01:09.708 --> 0:01:12.868 tight Ends in June for trivia on this show on Thursday, 0:01:12.948 --> 0:01:13.788 So just be ready. 0:01:14.428 --> 0:01:18.108 I'm ready for Blake Bortle Jaguars or something like that. 0:01:23.188 --> 0:01:29.108 Yes, all right, but until then we will address what's 0:01:29.108 --> 0:01:29.948 happening this weekend. 0:01:29.948 --> 0:01:30.268 Of course. 0:01:30.268 --> 0:01:32.068 Plus we have a really cool announcement to be made 0:01:32.068 --> 0:01:33.868 on the show in the second hour, so stay tuned 0:01:33.908 --> 0:01:36.788 here in GMFP. First, though, a big rematch on Sunday 0:01:36.828 --> 0:01:39.548 is Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills head into Arrowhead 0:01:39.628 --> 0:01:43.268 to take on Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs for, as 0:01:43.308 --> 0:01:44.948 you know, a chance to play in the Super Bowl. 0:01:44.988 --> 0:01:49.028 Both quarterbacks talked about this upcoming matchup this time around. 0:01:51.468 --> 0:01:53.428 I mean, I think it's it's like a division game. 0:01:54.428 --> 0:01:57.028 I feel like we've played them just as much as 0:01:57.068 --> 0:02:01.188 we've played the guys in our division, and you know 0:02:01.268 --> 0:02:06.028 with that comes familiarity, new wrinkles here and there throughout 0:02:06.028 --> 0:02:07.988 the game. But you know, they know who we are, 0:02:08.028 --> 0:02:11.868 we know who they are, and it literally just comes 0:02:11.908 --> 0:02:14.748 down to who executes well on Sunday. 0:02:14.868 --> 0:02:16.668 It's just two really good football teams going up against 0:02:16.708 --> 0:02:19.868 each other. They have great players every level and both 0:02:19.868 --> 0:02:22.468 sides of the ball, and they're will coached and so 0:02:22.988 --> 0:02:24.828 when you play great football teams like that, it kind 0:02:24.828 --> 0:02:26.828 of usually ends with kind of that split type of 0:02:27.788 --> 0:02:30.388 deal there. And so we've been able to beat them 0:02:30.988 --> 0:02:32.788 in the playoffs and they've gone us in the regular season. 0:02:32.788 --> 0:02:34.788 But if you look at the games, every game is closed, 0:02:34.828 --> 0:02:36.268 so it just comes down to a play here there 0:02:36.308 --> 0:02:38.468 that kind of usually, uh, that makes an impact on 0:02:38.508 --> 0:02:38.908 the outcome. 0:02:40.188 --> 0:02:42.508 Did anyone else's brain go to, man, what if the 0:02:42.508 --> 0:02:44.228 Bills and the Chiefs were in the same division. That 0:02:44.228 --> 0:02:45.948 would be kind of awesome. But this is what we 0:02:46.068 --> 0:02:48.548 have to deal with. But one regular season matchup and 0:02:48.588 --> 0:02:51.868 then one that feels inevitable in the postseason. Peter, what 0:02:52.108 --> 0:02:54.508 is the one thing that you are watching ahead of 0:02:54.548 --> 0:02:55.908 this AFC title game? 0:02:57.268 --> 0:02:58.668 It might sound obvious. 0:02:58.708 --> 0:03:01.468 I'm looking at the quarterbacks, and I'm looking at my Homes, 0:03:01.468 --> 0:03:03.428 and I'm looking at Alan and of course they're rich 0:03:03.548 --> 0:03:06.508 history to get there. And you know, we've always done 0:03:06.548 --> 0:03:09.628 the basketball analogy here on Good Morning Football, and we said, well, 0:03:09.668 --> 0:03:13.268 now at this point, Mahomes, you know, he's the Michael Jordan, 0:03:13.348 --> 0:03:17.388 and then you had Barkley and Malone and Ewing and 0:03:17.828 --> 0:03:19.908 of course Gary Payton and Sean Kemp in that era, 0:03:20.108 --> 0:03:23.188 and they just couldn't get past them. I had Mike Tarico, 0:03:23.548 --> 0:03:27.068 the legendary voice of NBC Sports on my podcast this week, 0:03:27.068 --> 0:03:30.068 and he made a really good analogy that wasn't the 0:03:30.148 --> 0:03:32.508 basketball analogy, and I thought this was even better. 0:03:32.828 --> 0:03:33.348 He said, with. 0:03:33.428 --> 0:03:39.348 Lamar, with Burrow, with Allen, and of course you have 0:03:39.548 --> 0:03:44.308 Mahomes up here. You have this group, and it's not 0:03:44.428 --> 0:03:50.108 the basketball analogy. Patrick Mahomes is Tiger Woods. Patrick Mahomes 0:03:50.188 --> 0:03:52.628 is Tiger Woods. And if you've got Mahomes in his 0:03:52.788 --> 0:03:58.588 Sunday Red as Tiger in that era, these other guys 0:03:58.588 --> 0:04:02.708 are Mickelson, you know, Phil always, Lefty was always in 0:04:02.788 --> 0:04:06.948 the mix, Ernie Els always right. 0:04:06.788 --> 0:04:11.268 There, and it's VJ. Singh. Sure, and in any other 0:04:11.348 --> 0:04:13.788 era those guys would have been the faces of the sport. 0:04:14.988 --> 0:04:19.228 But for two hundred and eighty one straight days, Tiger 0:04:19.268 --> 0:04:22.868 Woods was the guy. That's how I feel with Patrick Mahomes, not. 0:04:22.828 --> 0:04:25.188 Only in the AFC but in the NFL right now. 0:04:25.308 --> 0:04:28.788 In any other era, this could be Josh Allen's time, 0:04:28.868 --> 0:04:30.908 and we look back and say, well, it was Montana, 0:04:31.108 --> 0:04:33.348 it was Brady, and it was Josh Allen, or it 0:04:33.348 --> 0:04:36.108 could have been Lamar's three MVPs. He's that guy from 0:04:36.108 --> 0:04:40.228 this era. This is Mahomes' era. Who's gonna knock off Tiger. 0:04:40.428 --> 0:04:43.028 Who's gonna knock off Tiger when he's in his Sunday Red, 0:04:43.228 --> 0:04:46.948 Who's gonna knock off Tiger in his building, in his backyard, 0:04:46.988 --> 0:04:49.508 when he's at his most comfortable. That's how I look 0:04:49.548 --> 0:04:51.268 at this, and I think Tarika was great with it. 0:04:51.708 --> 0:04:53.988 For years, it was Brady, it was Brady. 0:04:54.068 --> 0:04:56.708 It was Brady, and then one day on a Sunday 0:04:56.948 --> 0:05:00.348 in six Peyton Manning woke up and it was no 0:05:00.428 --> 0:05:03.668 longer going to be Brady. He finally slayed the dragon. 0:05:03.708 --> 0:05:06.148 He did it at home home in the Dome in 0:05:06.188 --> 0:05:09.468 an AFC championship game, and they came. 0:05:09.308 --> 0:05:12.188 Back from a big deficit and he finally got pats. 0:05:12.388 --> 0:05:15.308 Guys, that's Dan Klecko right there. That's who we're showing. 0:05:15.588 --> 0:05:18.988 And of course that's our guy, big Dominic Rhodes and 0:05:19.348 --> 0:05:22.388 the fumble recovery there. It was an epic win. Marlon 0:05:22.508 --> 0:05:26.308 Jackson puts it away. But Brady eventually went down and 0:05:26.388 --> 0:05:29.428 at that game he had to shake Peyton's hand, and 0:05:29.468 --> 0:05:31.588 it wasn't a passing of the torch per se, because 0:05:31.588 --> 0:05:33.468 Brady would get another and another and another. 0:05:34.588 --> 0:05:37.108 But Manning did it. It was on his resume. 0:05:37.748 --> 0:05:40.748 He got past Brady, and one of these guys at 0:05:40.748 --> 0:05:42.748 some point one of these years is gonna have to 0:05:42.788 --> 0:05:46.028 get by Tiger Woods, and that's Patrick Mahomes. I look 0:05:46.068 --> 0:05:48.588 at the quarterbacks, I look at Josh, I look at Patrick, 0:05:48.788 --> 0:05:49.148 and if. 0:05:49.068 --> 0:05:50.908 It wasn't gonna be Burrow this year, and it wasn't 0:05:50.908 --> 0:05:54.948 gonna be Lamar Josh Allen, go be that dude, Go 0:05:55.068 --> 0:05:56.628 slay the dragon. Kyle. 0:05:56.668 --> 0:05:59.108 I know you have plenty more to say about that topic. 0:05:59.188 --> 0:06:02.068 Yeah, I'm already thinking, like, is Jaden Daniels, Jordan Spieth 0:06:02.148 --> 0:06:04.828 or rored like next comic And honestly, it's a really 0:06:04.828 --> 0:06:08.948 cool comparison. But Mahomes has a huge advantage over Tiger 0:06:08.988 --> 0:06:11.348 in the sense that he has control of his personal life. 0:06:11.388 --> 0:06:14.148 And Tiger beat himself and that's the reason he didn't 0:06:14.188 --> 0:06:17.788 catch Jack is that Mahomes is a machine personal wise, 0:06:17.828 --> 0:06:20.028 and he is such a mast in the storm, whereas 0:06:20.068 --> 0:06:22.228 Tiger completely came off the rails. I don't see that 0:06:22.228 --> 0:06:25.028 from Patrick Mahomes. And that's how why Tiger's career change. 0:06:25.108 --> 0:06:28.868 Mahomes just churning this out. I'm fascinated by the quarterback 0:06:28.908 --> 0:06:29.708 on the other side of the ball. 0:06:29.708 --> 0:06:30.228 In this game. 0:06:30.508 --> 0:06:33.308 This is the biggest game of Josh Allen's life. The 0:06:33.388 --> 0:06:35.748 stakes are much higher than they were in his last 0:06:35.788 --> 0:06:36.348 title game. 0:06:36.628 --> 0:06:38.828 Win or lose This game for. 0:06:38.868 --> 0:06:41.268 Josh Allen will be discussed and dissected until the day 0:06:41.308 --> 0:06:44.388 he dies. If he loses this game, Mahomes will go 0:06:44.428 --> 0:06:47.068 to seventeen and three in the playoffs and Josh Allen 0:06:47.108 --> 0:06:49.708 will go to seven and six. He will go oh 0:06:49.748 --> 0:06:52.268 and two in title games. Josh Allen, he will go 0:06:52.388 --> 0:06:54.788 oh to four against the Chiefs in the playoffs. And 0:06:54.828 --> 0:06:57.148 if you do want to make the basketball analogy about 0:06:57.388 --> 0:07:01.668 Jordan Nett get past the Pistons, Jordan lost the Pistons 0:07:01.668 --> 0:07:04.508 three years, not four. By the fourth time he got 0:07:04.748 --> 0:07:08.268 not only did he beat the Pistons, he swept the Pistons. 0:07:08.628 --> 0:07:10.428 He did not lose four years in a row. This 0:07:10.428 --> 0:07:12.948 would be the fourth time that Josh Allen lost to 0:07:12.988 --> 0:07:15.268 the Chiefs. So there's a word, though you can describe 0:07:15.348 --> 0:07:17.468 Josh Allen this year that has never really been used 0:07:17.468 --> 0:07:18.348 to describe him. 0:07:18.228 --> 0:07:22.788 Before, and it is composed. He is so composed this year. 0:07:22.988 --> 0:07:24.668 He is so clean this year. 0:07:24.788 --> 0:07:27.068 I don't even know if you understand how clean it's 0:07:27.108 --> 0:07:29.268 going to pay off in this game. Josh Allen this 0:07:29.308 --> 0:07:32.388 season has the lowest number of terrible plays by a 0:07:32.428 --> 0:07:37.148 quarterback in any season ever, better than Montana Young Brady Rogers. 0:07:37.188 --> 0:07:37.908 And what does that mean? 0:07:38.148 --> 0:07:41.068 The lowest percentage of plays that end with an interception, 0:07:41.548 --> 0:07:45.388 a fumble, or a sack since the merger. Four percent 0:07:45.388 --> 0:07:48.188 of the Bills offensive plays and in a sack, fumble, interception. 0:07:48.548 --> 0:07:50.708 And this is Josh Allen, the sugar high guy who 0:07:50.748 --> 0:07:52.068 does crazy things and can't. 0:07:51.908 --> 0:07:53.188 Control himself in big games. 0:07:53.508 --> 0:07:56.028 No one has been more composed than him this year, 0:07:56.548 --> 0:08:00.788 and yet he does still have that little devil on 0:08:00.868 --> 0:08:04.108 his shoulder. It never fully goes away. And just when 0:08:04.148 --> 0:08:05.868 you think you know, I got the angel over here 0:08:05.908 --> 0:08:07.388 that says, check it out, down, throw it out of 0:08:07.388 --> 0:08:08.148 the bounds. 0:08:08.028 --> 0:08:10.748 The devil says, dude, cool, do a cool play. Go 0:08:10.988 --> 0:08:13.148 later out to somebody, jump over somebody. 0:08:12.828 --> 0:08:13.148 Just do it. 0:08:13.148 --> 0:08:14.988 Why not, It'll be awesome. The highlights will love you. 0:08:15.268 --> 0:08:18.188 And we saw it. We almost saw it in this 0:08:18.268 --> 0:08:22.268 last game. Plait A second, is that James Cook about 0:08:22.348 --> 0:08:24.788 nine yards away? There's no one between me and it. 0:08:25.028 --> 0:08:26.468 What if I just picked it to him? 0:08:26.708 --> 0:08:27.508 What if I just talk? 0:08:27.588 --> 0:08:29.188 I'm sure that it won't become a fumble and the 0:08:29.268 --> 0:08:31.548 Ravens with scooping score and will lose. What if I 0:08:31.948 --> 0:08:34.108 just talked to me so cool and that was like 0:08:34.148 --> 0:08:36.228 do it, dude, do it, do it right, out do it. 0:08:36.228 --> 0:08:38.948 It's like the Green Goblin's mask and William Debout do it. 0:08:39.308 --> 0:08:41.908 He didn't do it. He didn't do it. 0:08:41.988 --> 0:08:44.588 And afterwards, well, this week rather, he was. 0:08:44.588 --> 0:08:46.868 Asked, hey, Josh, were you. 0:08:46.708 --> 0:08:48.868 Thinking about maybe tossing at the Cook. 0:08:48.628 --> 0:08:50.108 And the goal line? 0:08:52.108 --> 0:08:53.708 It looks like there was a moment where he thought 0:08:53.708 --> 0:08:56.868 about laddling the ball back James Cook. 0:08:58.388 --> 0:08:59.468 Did that go through your head? 0:08:59.748 --> 0:09:02.788 No, wouldn't young. 0:09:02.628 --> 0:09:04.868 Josh Allen had done that, He would have it. Yes, 0:09:06.028 --> 0:09:09.428 it may have crossed the mind. But yeah, I didn't 0:09:09.468 --> 0:09:12.668 do it. 0:09:12.708 --> 0:09:14.868 He's all grown up, and yes, of course he would 0:09:14.868 --> 0:09:16.348 have done it. Young Josh Allen would have done it 0:09:16.388 --> 0:09:19.268 behind his back backwards. That was him. He's composed now. 0:09:19.468 --> 0:09:20.188 He plays clean. 0:09:20.268 --> 0:09:20.468 Now. 0:09:20.788 --> 0:09:23.668 If the Bills don't have a fumble or an interception 0:09:23.908 --> 0:09:25.588 or a sack, they're going to win this game. They 0:09:25.628 --> 0:09:27.868 run the ball better than the Chiefs. Their quarterback has 0:09:27.868 --> 0:09:30.268 played better than the Chiefs this year. It's down to 0:09:30.348 --> 0:09:32.388 that guy. How does he show up in this game 0:09:32.428 --> 0:09:35.308 and late in this game, does the devil win? Or 0:09:35.348 --> 0:09:37.628 does he finally just flick it off his shoulder and 0:09:37.668 --> 0:09:39.028 go to a super Bowl. There's going to be a 0:09:39.028 --> 0:09:41.388 moment where Josh Jawn right here has to play clean 0:09:41.468 --> 0:09:42.788 ball instead of crazy ball. 0:09:43.028 --> 0:09:43.948 I think that he will. 0:09:44.668 --> 0:09:47.148 I hope he doesn't play crazy ball, Kyle, because I 0:09:47.148 --> 0:09:50.148 think you myself, Jamie Peter, we all know he would 0:09:50.148 --> 0:09:53.308 line through his teeth because we saw his eyes on film. 0:09:53.348 --> 0:09:55.468 We saw it, and if it wasn't for that defender 0:09:55.508 --> 0:09:57.628 that came around and kind of kind of corralled and 0:09:58.068 --> 0:10:00.268 made sure he couldn't make that pitch, he would have 0:10:00.308 --> 0:10:02.668 done it. If he had the opportunity, he absolutely would 0:10:02.708 --> 0:10:03.948 have done it. And that could have been a game 0:10:04.028 --> 0:10:07.588 changer in that situation. But you talk about how to 0:10:07.668 --> 0:10:10.668 win this game, and you're talking about the running game, 0:10:10.708 --> 0:10:13.348 and of course, Josh Allen, this is a team I 0:10:13.428 --> 0:10:16.788 make more of a boxing a fictional boxing comparison to 0:10:16.948 --> 0:10:19.948 Rocky Balboa. And there's one of my favorite quotes is 0:10:19.948 --> 0:10:23.188 that you know, winning it's not about how hard you 0:10:23.228 --> 0:10:26.468 get hit. It's about your ability to get hit and 0:10:26.548 --> 0:10:29.748 keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. And did 0:10:29.788 --> 0:10:32.228 we see that in the Division round back in twenty 0:10:32.308 --> 0:10:35.508 twenty one when they were going blow for blow, just 0:10:35.588 --> 0:10:39.108 going back at each other. It was ridiculous the way 0:10:39.148 --> 0:10:41.348 they were going at each other. And remember with about 0:10:41.668 --> 0:10:43.468 you know, a little bit over a minute, it was 0:10:43.508 --> 0:10:47.028 twenty one twenty six, the Buffalo Bills were down and 0:10:47.108 --> 0:10:49.828 they were shooting. It was a shootout, and then it 0:10:49.948 --> 0:10:52.788 came down to that final thirteen seconds in the game 0:10:53.028 --> 0:10:56.348 and we saw Mahome rise up to the occasion. And 0:10:56.628 --> 0:10:58.948 when he does that and we's at his form, it's 0:10:59.068 --> 0:10:59.828 very very hard. 0:11:00.148 --> 0:11:01.868 So what I need to see. 0:11:01.668 --> 0:11:04.188 Out of Josh Allen they want an opportunity to beat 0:11:04.468 --> 0:11:08.628 the Kansas City Chiefs. They're going to need intestinal, testicular 0:11:08.668 --> 0:11:12.508 fortitude and they're going to need strength endurance to be 0:11:12.628 --> 0:11:17.428 able to handle the Kansas City Chiefs. They're too They're 0:11:17.428 --> 0:11:19.908 too hard, man, They're too hard. They have so much 0:11:19.908 --> 0:11:21.988 fighting them. I look at that over time and I 0:11:22.068 --> 0:11:24.548 just see the way they just march themselves down to 0:11:24.628 --> 0:11:27.828 finally get the victory with Kelsey. That to me defined 0:11:27.868 --> 0:11:29.788 to the Kansas City Chiefs. So they don't give up. 0:11:29.868 --> 0:11:31.588 If you hit them, they're gonna hit back harder. They're 0:11:31.628 --> 0:11:33.868 just gonna keep hitting and keep hitting, so we'll see 0:11:33.868 --> 0:11:35.948 how they respond. But I want to see a great game. 0:11:35.948 --> 0:11:37.468 I'm looking at this, I'm going, what do I want 0:11:37.468 --> 0:11:39.628 to see out of this game? I want to see 0:11:39.628 --> 0:11:41.668 what I saw in fact, even better, I want to 0:11:41.708 --> 0:11:43.748 see if they can do better than what we saw 0:11:43.788 --> 0:11:45.508 in that Division round a couple of years ago. 0:11:45.788 --> 0:11:46.868 That's what I want out. 0:11:46.668 --> 0:11:48.028 Of this game. This is so great. 0:11:48.028 --> 0:11:49.908 We have so much more time to unpack this match 0:11:49.988 --> 0:11:53.868 up ahead of Sunday afternoon. Until then, Tom Pellisara, welcome inside. 0:11:53.908 --> 0:11:55.988 There's a lot of balancing act that occurs right now. 0:11:55.988 --> 0:11:58.908 It's looking at the postseason, but it's also decisions that 0:11:58.988 --> 0:12:01.548 teams are making when they're not playing. The New York 0:12:01.588 --> 0:12:04.108 Jets brought a couple guys into the building just to 0:12:04.148 --> 0:12:06.788 handle but they made some news yesterday when they finally 0:12:06.868 --> 0:12:08.028 landed on their new head coach. 0:12:09.028 --> 0:12:09.948 That's right, Jamie. 0:12:09.988 --> 0:12:13.748 After conducting over a dozen interviews with head coaching candidates, 0:12:14.028 --> 0:12:16.548 the Jets settled on the one that always seemed to 0:12:16.588 --> 0:12:19.788 be the favorite. Aaron Glenn is the new head coach 0:12:20.188 --> 0:12:23.028 of the New York Jets. Back with the franchise with 0:12:23.068 --> 0:12:26.868 which he played eight of his NFL seasons, also was 0:12:26.908 --> 0:12:30.108 a coach at one point in New York. Glenn said 0:12:30.148 --> 0:12:32.628 in the statement, this place is special to me where 0:12:32.708 --> 0:12:35.908 fans simply put, expect a winning team that you will 0:12:35.948 --> 0:12:38.668 be proud of. This is about culture for the New 0:12:38.748 --> 0:12:41.428 York Jets. This certainly follows another pattern as much as 0:12:41.428 --> 0:12:44.708 New York talked about potentially getting experience at one or 0:12:44.748 --> 0:12:47.268 both the positions as they changed head coach in general 0:12:47.268 --> 0:12:49.868 manager again and once again are going with a first 0:12:49.868 --> 0:12:52.868 time head coach from the defensive side, but the one 0:12:52.868 --> 0:12:55.708 that comes with a lot of credibility both for his 0:12:55.788 --> 0:12:57.788 work as a player and being a part of what 0:12:57.828 --> 0:13:01.188 they built in Detroit over the past several years. No 0:13:01.428 --> 0:13:05.308 general manager hire yet for the Jets. Darren Mougi, who 0:13:05.348 --> 0:13:08.308 was the Broncos assistant GM, and Trey Brown front office 0:13:08.308 --> 0:13:11.508 guy for the Bengals, both in the building today, Lance 0:13:11.548 --> 0:13:15.428 Newmark alive as well. Expect a decision as soon as tonight, 0:13:15.668 --> 0:13:18.428 I mean, while the Jaguars made a decision with some 0:13:18.548 --> 0:13:22.668 rather surprising timing, the team parting ways on Wednesday with 0:13:22.708 --> 0:13:26.828 their GM Trent Baulkey after fourth seasons at the Helm. 0:13:26.868 --> 0:13:29.828 Now This has been a decision that had been rumored 0:13:29.908 --> 0:13:32.388 for months. The Bulky, one way or another, might not 0:13:32.428 --> 0:13:35.388 be back with the Jaguars. In twenty twenty five, when 0:13:35.428 --> 0:13:38.548 shod Con announced the firing of Doug Peterson, he also 0:13:38.588 --> 0:13:41.388 announced that Bulky would return and be a big part 0:13:41.508 --> 0:13:45.148 of their coaching search. What happened over the past couple 0:13:45.148 --> 0:13:47.908 of weeks here where there were too many examples of 0:13:48.268 --> 0:13:52.908 head coaching candidates pulling back or expressing reservations about working 0:13:53.188 --> 0:13:56.748 with Bulkey in Jacksonville. The latest one was when Liam 0:13:56.828 --> 0:14:00.708 Cohen decided to return to Tampa Bay as offensive coordinator. 0:14:00.788 --> 0:14:01.948 There were a bunch of reasons for. 0:14:01.908 --> 0:14:04.828 That, including the Bucks making a big offer to Liam Cohen, 0:14:05.028 --> 0:14:08.588 but just hours later, the Jaguars made the announcement trend 0:14:08.668 --> 0:14:12.028 Balkey is out. They're recalibrating now with Ethan Waugh as 0:14:12.068 --> 0:14:16.268 their interim general manager. Patrick Graham, the former Raiders defensive coordinator, 0:14:16.508 --> 0:14:17.028 still on. 0:14:17.148 --> 0:14:19.148 He is interviewing for the head coaching. 0:14:18.908 --> 0:14:23.028 Job today, but expect them to potentially widen out their 0:14:23.068 --> 0:14:26.228 search as well as for the teams playing this weekend. 0:14:26.268 --> 0:14:29.468 One injury injury that we are monitoring is Jalen Hurts 0:14:29.548 --> 0:14:32.588 and that knee they got all twisted up last week. 0:14:32.908 --> 0:14:34.868 You can see the play right here where Jalen Hurts 0:14:34.948 --> 0:14:37.788 kind of crumples viely grabs toward that left knee. He 0:14:37.868 --> 0:14:42.188 was officially listed as limited in practice on Wednesday. Hurts 0:14:42.228 --> 0:14:44.788 old reporters he is taking it one day at a time. 0:14:45.108 --> 0:14:47.668 Said that he does plan to play on Sunday in 0:14:47.708 --> 0:14:50.708 the NFC Championship game against the Commanders, but when he 0:14:50.788 --> 0:14:53.348 was asked whether potential of that injury could limit his 0:14:53.468 --> 0:14:57.508 running ability, Hurts said, only every game is different. Certainly 0:14:57.588 --> 0:15:00.668 something to monitor both through the week and during the 0:15:00.708 --> 0:15:06.788 game on Sunday. 0:15:06.788 --> 0:15:11.708 AFC NFC Championship weekend, it's for all the marvels, and 0:15:11.748 --> 0:15:13.788 it's for a trip to go to the super Bowl. 0:15:13.828 --> 0:15:17.108 Do you know that this week all four teams have 0:15:17.188 --> 0:15:19.508 staff members who fly out to the super Bowl site 0:15:19.548 --> 0:15:21.748 to do something called advance work, just to see where 0:15:21.748 --> 0:15:24.708 our hotel is and where we're gonna bring our key sponsors. 0:15:25.868 --> 0:15:29.548 Think about that air of we're just one win away. 0:15:29.588 --> 0:15:31.668 That's how we feel on good morning for pretty cool, 0:15:31.708 --> 0:15:33.908 Pretty cool. Now we got four teams who are right 0:15:33.948 --> 0:15:36.188 there on the doorstep. It's a game we call we 0:15:36.268 --> 0:15:38.188 inter we out if I present a topic and my 0:15:38.228 --> 0:15:41.268 co hosts tell me whether they agree or they disagree. 0:15:41.428 --> 0:15:44.428 Here's my statement in a historical lens. 0:15:44.548 --> 0:15:47.148 Another big game and a trip to the super Bowl 0:15:47.948 --> 0:15:51.588 is far more significant than any of the regular season 0:15:51.628 --> 0:15:54.388 records we discussed when it comes to Saquon Barkley, Are 0:15:54.388 --> 0:15:55.148 we inn we out? 0:15:55.268 --> 0:15:58.948 Jamie Erdall, Oh my gosh, I just said, akbar. If 0:15:58.988 --> 0:16:01.988 that man is playing in a super Bowl in two weeks, 0:16:02.068 --> 0:16:03.988 I am just gonna my heart is just gonna melt. 0:16:04.108 --> 0:16:07.908 What What is it about his face, his determination, his story, 0:16:08.268 --> 0:16:13.108 It's absolutely incredible. I I another big game. In a 0:16:13.148 --> 0:16:17.148 trip verses, I'm in I'm in on this. I just like, 0:16:17.188 --> 0:16:19.468 I'm so shook by that music and by Saquon and 0:16:19.508 --> 0:16:21.828 everything that's going on. I'm in another big game and 0:16:22.348 --> 0:16:25.148 more significant. Yes, yes, yes, yes, And I'm also thinking 0:16:25.188 --> 0:16:27.028 about those advanced scout people that have to go and 0:16:27.028 --> 0:16:28.508 then they don't get to go to the super Bowl. 0:16:28.668 --> 0:16:31.948 I'm so distracted by Peter's t right. I'm in on this, sockbar. 0:16:32.308 --> 0:16:34.628 You know I'm in on this too. I absolutely love 0:16:34.668 --> 0:16:37.308 it because you look at this. Yes, the personal records 0:16:37.308 --> 0:16:39.508 they mean a lot, and you guys know, I wanted 0:16:39.548 --> 0:16:42.228 it badly for Saquon Barkley. It was just time to 0:16:42.268 --> 0:16:45.388 see that he's worked so hard, all the doubt that 0:16:45.508 --> 0:16:47.988 happened before and the you know, going into a new 0:16:48.028 --> 0:16:52.308 team situation. But it doesn't mean that there are more 0:16:52.348 --> 0:16:55.228 opportunities for him to pick up a Super Bowl ring 0:16:55.628 --> 0:16:57.188 and more records. 0:16:57.548 --> 0:16:58.948 You know, in this game. 0:16:58.988 --> 0:17:01.948 Saquon Barkley has the opportunity, in this championship game that 0:17:01.988 --> 0:17:05.468 he can pass Eric Dickerson this Sunday for total rushing 0:17:05.588 --> 0:17:10.028 yards in the season and postseason and move into third place. 0:17:10.308 --> 0:17:13.268 He's won that many yards and also has an opportunity, 0:17:13.468 --> 0:17:15.388 you know, depending on how he goes off, he has 0:17:15.428 --> 0:17:19.428 an opportunity to pass you know, that of Terrell Davis. 0:17:19.508 --> 0:17:21.348 So it would be cool to see him do that. 0:17:21.388 --> 0:17:23.948 But everybody knows super Bowl ring is the ultimate destination. 0:17:25.508 --> 0:17:26.748 Twenty one oh five would have been awesome. 0:17:26.788 --> 0:17:29.068 It's one of the few actual numbers in our sport 0:17:29.148 --> 0:17:32.348 that people remember. I don't know that Terrell Davis full 0:17:32.428 --> 0:17:34.668 season plus playoffs record, it's cool and everything. 0:17:34.708 --> 0:17:36.508 I love TD. That's not twenty one oh five was 0:17:36.548 --> 0:17:38.948 a number. However, this is what I would say. 0:17:38.988 --> 0:17:41.388 I've been able to go into the Super Bowl week 0:17:41.428 --> 0:17:43.108 in the Super Bowl Study many times over the years, 0:17:43.148 --> 0:17:45.788 and there's I would speak to Saquon, there's there's something 0:17:45.868 --> 0:17:48.388 called radio row and it'll be over sooner, it'll be 0:17:48.428 --> 0:17:50.268 podcast row, whatever the hell it is. But what I'm 0:17:50.308 --> 0:17:53.668 saying is there you see guys there. You see dignitaries there. 0:17:53.708 --> 0:17:56.268 Sometimes you'll see people walking around with the gold jacket 0:17:56.268 --> 0:17:58.468 on and it's unbelievable. Then you'll see other guys who 0:17:58.508 --> 0:18:00.588 are walking around who have Super Bowl rings on and 0:18:00.628 --> 0:18:01.428 it's incredible. 0:18:01.908 --> 0:18:03.508 And then you see guys who are walking around with 0:18:03.628 --> 0:18:05.148 both with. 0:18:05.268 --> 0:18:06.828 Both Kyle, you got me fired off. 0:18:06.828 --> 0:18:10.428 You got the jacket, they got the ring. Saquon, you 0:18:10.468 --> 0:18:13.388 can do that thirty years from now. You can show 0:18:13.468 --> 0:18:16.188 up with both of them. And that is a club 0:18:16.228 --> 0:18:19.348 in and of itself. It's right there from you. Also, 0:18:20.188 --> 0:18:22.508 you are going to be one of the very few 0:18:22.268 --> 0:18:26.348 or few players ever to as a running back lead 0:18:26.548 --> 0:18:29.788 the team to the super Bowl. Not in nineteen sixty eight, 0:18:30.268 --> 0:18:33.748 in twenty twenty five. It's a very rare club. And 0:18:33.788 --> 0:18:36.508 maybe one of those that Emmett really carried the Cowboys, 0:18:36.508 --> 0:18:37.508 but they're always kind of strung. 0:18:37.828 --> 0:18:38.468 Not this one. 0:18:38.508 --> 0:18:40.708 This one would be really special when in this era, 0:18:40.828 --> 0:18:45.268 with these rules and these quarterbacks, the running back held 0:18:45.428 --> 0:18:48.548 the team on his shoulders and carried them. That's a 0:18:48.548 --> 0:18:51.828