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Speaker 1: welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. Another week more chaos,
Speaker 1: Mitchell elimination. Rich it's Steward die time. It is do
Speaker 1: or die time. We got that extra week. This stuff
Speaker 1: is come down to the wire drastically, and and we
Speaker 1: saw it in the NFC South, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: we've been talking smack about this division all season long
Speaker 1: and we had a barn burner down to Tampa. Rich
Speaker 1: your thoughts on these Buccaneers, Well, it looked like Tom
Speaker 1: Brady finally understood that, hey, sometimes you can just throw
Speaker 1: it up to Mike Evans over and over and over
Speaker 1: again and it will work. And throughout the season people
Speaker 1: were wondering what happened because they had such a great
Speaker 1: rapport and a great rhythm in the last season going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, you know, made some huge plays and
Speaker 1: this year kind of you know, Mike was getting his yards,
Speaker 1: but there weren't the explosive plays that you're used to.
Speaker 1: And then this game it was like, hey, you got
Speaker 1: nothing to lose, toss it up to him over and
Speaker 1: over and over. I mean, at at some point at
Speaker 1: the corner you gotta just start bail and say, hey,
Speaker 1: hey come on now, you'll you'll catch everything but a
Speaker 1: go ball today. But man, it was great to see
Speaker 1: Tom Brady vintage Tom Brady, right when he needs it,
Speaker 1: he got it. He shared a four and thirty two
Speaker 1: yards and capped it off with a rushing TD two
Speaker 1: and Rich to your point, I mean, this is the
Speaker 1: Mike Evans of the last several years, right, I mean
Speaker 1: I thought I was watching replays. Every time I looked up,
Speaker 1: he was catching a goal ball down the right sideline
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, that's another touchdown. You know.
Speaker 1: So these are the days you're used to seeing with
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, and now you've got Tom Brady entering, you know,
Speaker 1: the off season on a little bit of a little
Speaker 1: bit of a hot streak. Here can Tampa Bay realistically
Speaker 1: make any noise in the playoffs? Well, if Mike Evans
Speaker 1: is playing like that, he's unstoppable. I mean, he's gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to double him. They're gonna need to
Speaker 1: back up that. Maybe that'll open up the run game
Speaker 1: for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But if they keep singling
Speaker 1: him and playing eight man box football, eight men in
Speaker 1: the box football, then I mean, Mike, he might not
Speaker 1: have two oh seven like he had this game, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a day. And it was I had
Speaker 1: to have a game. You know, this is for for
Speaker 1: all the marbles. And it was cool to see them
Speaker 1: come back because they were down early, they were down
Speaker 1: fourteen nothing. You know, team can quit, the team can
Speaker 1: give up and say, hey, you know, this isn't our day,
Speaker 1: this isn't our year and Tom Brady doesn't have any
Speaker 1: quit in him, and so it was great. It was
Speaker 1: great to see that from the team. Great game for
Speaker 1: Mike h But look at your Detroit Lions, Mitchell Oh,
Speaker 1: talk about another half to have it game. I mean,
Speaker 1: going into this game, you know you're the letdown game.
Speaker 1: Last week it was bound to happen. The team was hot,
Speaker 1: they stumbled in Carolina and now they gotta win out
Speaker 1: and get some love from Seattle and the lost column.
Speaker 1: That didn't happen today. But in Detroit they're at home.
Speaker 1: They look like a great team. I mean, their offense
Speaker 1: is clicking on all cylinders. Jared Goff looks like Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford out there. I mean, my goodness, Rich, if this
Speaker 1: team could only play at home every game of the season,
Speaker 1: they might be a serious, serious contender, but unfortunately they can't.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Bears got off rolling quick, justin fields
Speaker 1: a hundred yards running in the first quarter, but the
Speaker 1: Lions calmed things down. You know, they're offensive courtner Ben
Speaker 1: Johnson does a hell of a job and the Lions
Speaker 1: are still still have a glimmer hope. I mean, does
Speaker 1: this have you have any more faith in this team?
Speaker 1: After last week, Rich with this big one this week.
Speaker 1: Menchel Mitchell, Mitchell, that's just come on. But Mitchell, you
Speaker 1: got something you got to win against Chicago's Bears teams
Speaker 1: that is gonna pick two in the draft. But like,
Speaker 1: let's go Metchell. We're not gonna go crazy here. But
Speaker 1: it was great. It was great offensive production. Jared Golf
Speaker 1: eight straight games without interception. I mean, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very hard for It's gonna be a hard decision for
Speaker 1: the Lions what they're gonna do this off season, because
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna they're gonna have to figure it out.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have the Rams pick, which will be top five.
Speaker 1: Will they need a quarterback? With Jared Golf playing like
Speaker 1: the number one pick that he was, I doubt it,
Speaker 1: you know, I doubt you go that way that direction.
Speaker 1: You've got other holes to feel hopefully you're able to
Speaker 1: fill him. Um James Houston three sacks, Josh Pascal two sack.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift came through for your fantasy team, Mitchell, I,
Speaker 1: he came through for a lot of fantasy teams. Rich.
Speaker 1: This his championship weekend. We can't forget that. But Rich,
Speaker 1: I know you're high on Tyreek Woolin, but let's not
Speaker 1: forget about Aidan Hutchinson. I mean, this guy's got his
Speaker 1: third interception as a defensive end. I mean that's relatively
Speaker 1: unheard of it in this league. At Fest, I think
Speaker 1: he's the first player to have three interceptions combined with
Speaker 1: a certain number of sacks, etcetera. And then you like
Speaker 1: giving love to random players every now and again. How
Speaker 1: about this rookie James Houston Rich he comes in, he's
Speaker 1: first off out of Jackson State. Dion Sanders Air. You know,
Speaker 1: I think this is the seventh or eight sack of
Speaker 1: the season. He's only played since Week eight or nine.
Speaker 1: I mean three sacks today, Rich, So I gotta give
Speaker 1: kudos there these guys. You gotta give him a lot
Speaker 1: of love. Three sacks it is hard to get for anybody.
Speaker 1: And for him to come on the scene like that,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's awesome, but it's it's that's why Destroity
Speaker 1: is playing well. They're finding gold, they're finding these late
Speaker 1: round gyms. These young guys are in outside of their mine.
Speaker 1: It's cool to see, it's really cool to see. It's
Speaker 1: cool to see Jared Golf play well. Jamal Williams is
Speaker 1: playing well. It's exciting football. Um and you talked about
Speaker 1: it earlier. Justin Fields was having a field day in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. I think you had a hundred and
Speaker 1: five or so in the first quarter. You know, kind
Speaker 1: of slowed it down after that. Um through interception late
Speaker 1: in the game. Wasn't very efficient passing the ball. And
Speaker 1: I mean, Detroit still needs some help. But going to
Speaker 1: Green Bay and beating green Bay would be big for
Speaker 1: their psyche, for their record, and for their playoff hopes.
Speaker 1: Man that but it's a it's a stretch. Mischell. Well,
Speaker 1: let's stay in that division. Let's talk about green Bay.
Speaker 1: We'd like to call him Kirk Oh, I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: him Kirk No Rich three interceptions. This this Vikings team.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna let you take the floor here. This
Speaker 1: is twelve and four. Rich. What do you think of
Speaker 1: this Vikings team at twelve and four? Mitchell, I think
Speaker 1: they're they're either a first round exit or second round
Speaker 1: exit team. They're not a super Bowl team. But it
Speaker 1: was fun. It was a fun run. You know, they
Speaker 1: got a lot of veterans, a lot of guys I
Speaker 1: like on that team. But they're not. They're not winning
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl with this team. You know, you you
Speaker 1: wanted to believe in him. Last week, you know they
Speaker 1: played hard, they you know, had a balanced attack. They're like,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they figured it out, but then this game
Speaker 1: shows you they have not, you know, And it's not
Speaker 1: even like Aaron Aaron just killed him and sliced and
Speaker 1: diced him. Aaron wasn't going off like that. Their defense
Speaker 1: played really well. Aaron Rodgers only had a hundred fifty
Speaker 1: nine yards passing one touchdown. Um, they gave up a
Speaker 1: lot of yards on the ground and the Green Bay
Speaker 1: defense played outstanding. You heard all the trash talk earlier
Speaker 1: in the week, all the trash talk earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: Jaire Alexander, you know, talking about Justin Jefferson. Stuff was
Speaker 1: just a flute. Hey, you say that you better, you
Speaker 1: better show up, and their whole defense showed up. Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson didn't even have a catch in the first half,
Speaker 1: which is crazy. He had one catch for fifteen yards
Speaker 1: in the entire game, and I think he had six targets. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's backing up your talk. That's that's you talk about it.
Speaker 1: You'd be about it, and um, like you said Kirk
Speaker 1: oh struggled three interceptions, like you can't have that. But
Speaker 1: that's good Kirk versus bad Kirk. You know it's Jacqueline High.
Speaker 1: They've won, I think, Tim, they're undefeated in one score games,
Speaker 1: you know, but then they got got these disgusting blowouts.
Speaker 1: You know, Dallas blew them out four to three. You
Speaker 1: know this this game got out of hand and you're like, uh, like,
Speaker 1: I can't I can't trust a team that gets blown
Speaker 1: out so easily. I certainly haven't seen anything like this, Rich.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're twelve and four. They have a minus
Speaker 1: nineteen point differential on the season. I don't even how
Speaker 1: that is statistically possible, but the Vikings have have found
Speaker 1: some way to do it. Rich Aaron Rodgers eighteen and
Speaker 1: one in December, him and the floor in December. In January,
Speaker 1: and this team again, we talked about it last week.
Speaker 1: Rogers seems to speak things into the existence. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got this quiet confidence about him, a little bit
Speaker 1: of cockiness if you will, but Ard, he backs it
Speaker 1: up and he gets his team's wins in crucial positions.
Speaker 1: Now they control their own destiny. You know, they win
Speaker 1: against Detroit, they are in do you foresee them winning
Speaker 1: against Detroit? And if so, what kind of noise can
Speaker 1: they make in the postseason. It's just so unpredictable. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know it's cool stat you know, with La
Speaker 1: Fleur and Aaron Rudder, the eighteen and one in December
Speaker 1: and January, and that's when you want to be playing
Speaker 1: your best football. I think they've won five in a row.
Speaker 1: It feels like a much better team than their record shows,
Speaker 1: but I still don't think they're complete enough to really
Speaker 1: do a ton of damage. Now. Now, sure they can
Speaker 1: run into Minnesota in the first round again, repeat matchup.
Speaker 1: I think they can win that game. Um, but I
Speaker 1: think I'm much better. Green Bay Packers team played against
Speaker 1: San Francisco last year in the playoffs and went home.
Speaker 1: And they were at home. You know, with Davante Adams
Speaker 1: and the boys. You know, there wasn't young receivers. But
Speaker 1: I still think, you know, when you got Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: and you've got Tom Brady, you got a chance. And uh,
Speaker 1: they'll have a chance, but it's gonna be a long shot.
Speaker 1: Not rich eye. I don't want to stray too far
Speaker 1: away from this playoff picture, but we had a team
Speaker 1: that eliminated themselves from contention today in the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 1: We talked about it last week, your bench, your boy
Speaker 1: Heineke for Carson Wentz, and you questioned it. I questioned it.
Speaker 1: It didn't seem to make a ton of sense. And
Speaker 1: then we see it on the field today, what Carson
Speaker 1: wants struggling mightily against the Brown's resulting at a loss.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on that coaching decision. I don't want to
Speaker 1: play Monday Morning quarterback here, but I think we have to.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Carson Wentz going forward. I mean that
Speaker 1: same way I felt about Carson Wentz before. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a great quarterback. You know what,
Speaker 1: people keep thinking they can save, and people keep thinking
Speaker 1: they can be. They got got the answers, you know,
Speaker 1: not that Taylor Heineke is is perfect. You know, he's
Speaker 1: not Tom Brady by any stretch of imagination. But the
Speaker 1: guys played for him and they fight for him, but
Speaker 1: they haven't been winning. So I think Ron Revere is
Speaker 1: just trying to get us sparked. The thing that is
Speaker 1: more stunning and and surprising is that that it didn't
Speaker 1: seem like Round RIVERA knew that they were eliminated from
Speaker 1: the playoffs, which is I mean, that's a whole story
Speaker 1: for a different day, But I mean it was great
Speaker 1: for the Browns defense. They got they got turnovers. Mile's
Speaker 1: Garrett played a really good game, Nick Chubb, Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: played his best game to date. Still not a great,
Speaker 1: not great completion percentage, but three touchdowns one hundred sixty
Speaker 1: nine yards. Amari Cooper his one of his best games
Speaker 1: of the season. So as a Rounds fan, I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're you know, I mean, you can get excited about it.
Speaker 1: You can get excited about how this team is playing.
Speaker 1: You're not going to the playoffs this year. You're doing
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Speaker 1: un gambler, Well Rich, let's talk about a team that
Speaker 1: might be going to the playoffs. Your hometown Seattle Seahawks
Speaker 1: get it done against Mike White, your homeboy. I know
Speaker 1: you love you some, Mike White, but the Seahawks just
Speaker 1: came out the gates dominated. You know, gave it to
Speaker 1: our boy. K nine runs right the field, six dr
Speaker 1: gasher right on the first possession and the Seahawks never
Speaker 1: looked back. This team I didn't believe in him a
Speaker 1: week ago. I didn't believe in them two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: but now they're looking like a team that maybe maybe
Speaker 1: they get hot at the right time. Rich your thought
Speaker 1: on the Seattle Seahawks, I mean, the thing that's really
Speaker 1: exciting for that team, you know. I mean Mike White
Speaker 1: struggled mightily, you know, looked uncomfortable the entire game. Just
Speaker 1: didn't look look like the quarterback he had looked like
Speaker 1: against Buffalo in the games he started against Chicago. But
Speaker 1: that's the league. Every week, you know, it's a week
Speaker 1: by week league, and if you you know, the great
Speaker 1: ones show up week after week after week after week
Speaker 1: after week. And it was unfortunate that, Um, Mike, Mike
Speaker 1: didn't play well. Two interceptions and I mean two interceptions
Speaker 1: that just one was really behind Garrett Wilson was open,
Speaker 1: he threw away behind him. Um, great play by Mike Jackson. Uh.
Speaker 1: Then Quandre Diggs made a heck of a play, you know,
Speaker 1: cutting off one of the routes. But those are mistakes
Speaker 1: you can't make. UM. But on the flip side, Gino
Speaker 1: played a really solid game. As always Pro Bowl season.
Speaker 1: He did exactly what they needed to do. They revived
Speaker 1: the running game with Kenneth Kenneth Walker the third Dty
Speaker 1: three yards on twenty three carries, and d J. Dallas
Speaker 1: also did some damage in the past game, had a
Speaker 1: career high in total yards. That was huge. Darrell Taylor
Speaker 1: two and a half sacks. His best game as a
Speaker 1: pro was all over the place, huge sack at the
Speaker 1: end of the game too, to pretty much nipp it
Speaker 1: in the butt. Uh. Quentin Jefferson veteran. Uh. And they're
Speaker 1: they're playing better against a run. You know they didn't.
Speaker 1: I don't think they gave up a hundred yard rusher
Speaker 1: to day, which is huge. You know, you need that
Speaker 1: kind of confidence and and it just seems like they're
Speaker 1: excited to play. But the Geno that Geno Smith revenged tour.
Speaker 1: He's played three teams, three of his former teams he
Speaker 1: three and oh, good year for you baby. He's done.
Speaker 1: It's certainly I mean, I know you were higher on
Speaker 1: him than most war but he's certainly revitalized his career.
Speaker 1: What I love about this more and anything, though, Rich,
Speaker 1: is that you have to be a Detroit Lions fan
Speaker 1: going into next week as the Detroit Lions must win
Speaker 1: in order for Seattle to have a shot at getting
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. Let's keep it in the division. We
Speaker 1: saw a great game, a great finish, and certainly not
Speaker 1: a game I expected to be close at all. The
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners pull off a very close, tight
Speaker 1: win in overtime against the Las Vegas Raiders. Your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this game, Well, it's concerning for for the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, because like we've been talking about, that got healthier.
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham is his first start of his career and
Speaker 1: unless he's coming out here developing into a and Rodgers
Speaker 1: or Tom Brady or Drew Brees or one of the
Speaker 1: all time great this is gonna be calls for concern
Speaker 1: because they were running beaters, you know they were they
Speaker 1: were finding holes in the San Francisco forty Niners defense. Um,
Speaker 1: they were still solid against the run, but I mean
Speaker 1: every team doesn't have a Davante Adams. He had seven
Speaker 1: for three. Majority of it came against Diamador Lenoir, who
Speaker 1: just you know, when you're young and you're dealing with
Speaker 1: the best receiver in football, you're gonna struggle. You know,
Speaker 1: you're gonna learned throughout the game why he's the best
Speaker 1: receiver in football. He just set a franchise record for receptions,
Speaker 1: but are on a nine game win streak. The offense
Speaker 1: put up thirty seven points with Brock Purdy needed and
Speaker 1: had to have it drive at the end of the
Speaker 1: football game, Ice in his veins drove it all the
Speaker 1: way down the field. Unfortunately Robbie Gold which is the conversation.
Speaker 1: You can't miss that one, you know, regulation, Thank goodness,
Speaker 1: Tayshaun Gibson gave him, give him another opportunity, you know,
Speaker 1: on a past that was forced to be errant because
Speaker 1: of Nicholas John Bosa. Huge play and overtime right when
Speaker 1: the team needed through just freaking destroys the tackle into
Speaker 1: the quarterback can't step into the throw, logs up a
Speaker 1: gimme for Tayshaun Gibson. He returns into the seven. The
Speaker 1: rest is history. Kicked the field goal. Let's go home,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I mean c MC c MC. I
Speaker 1: mean they've lost one game since CMC has has been
Speaker 1: traded for uh and now it was against the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs on his I mean he was a couple
Speaker 1: of days in so some people counted, some people. But
Speaker 1: since then they have not lost the game, and he's
Speaker 1: been really efficient. Brandon I Youth plays his best game,
Speaker 1: nine receptions for one on one and a tug and
Speaker 1: guess what mentioned next week? Tyshan comes back. Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: was back in the fold next week, and everybody's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you forgot about Deebo. You're gonna hear
Speaker 1: the music, m you know what I mean, kind of
Speaker 1: like Joel's But they're gonna show up and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be and Torres Sante. I like the forty Niners rich,
Speaker 1: I think they needed a game like this is a
Speaker 1: gut check. You know, everyone's been pumping up their tires
Speaker 1: talking about how great this defense is. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: certainly been doing it for weeks on this podcast. They
Speaker 1: deserved every bit of it, you know, but maybe this
Speaker 1: was a perfect mismatch for him. You know, you got
Speaker 1: a perfect compliment of Josh Jacobs and Davante Adams. By
Speaker 1: the way, Davante Adams said a franchise record toppled Tim
Speaker 1: Brown and his first season there, so kudos to him
Speaker 1: and in this game. I think a huge story here
Speaker 1: as well. The forty Niners are not the second seed.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be playing at home more and they're not
Speaker 1: gonna have to have to deal with going to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: You know, this is this is a big, big win
Speaker 1: for them on the road against a team obviously in
Speaker 1: the Raiders, that wanted to win, you know. And it's
Speaker 1: even it's even bigger because the Philadelphia Eagles are struggling
Speaker 1: right now. And it's not just offensively. It's defensively they're
Speaker 1: finding holes in his defense, but offensively they're struggling. They
Speaker 1: scored ten points against the Saints today. The Saints of
Speaker 1: are we're fighting for that last playoff spot in the
Speaker 1: NFC South, But you cannot lose that game. They had
Speaker 1: just played a really great game, score thirty four against
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. It almost makes that game seem worse
Speaker 1: because the Dallas Cowboys gave up thirty four to this offense.
Speaker 1: That that the Saints when he gave up ten to
Speaker 1: And if they lose this last one they played the Giants,
Speaker 1: I think at the end of the season, they lose
Speaker 1: this last one, forty are now the one seed and
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles dropped all the way down to the
Speaker 1: wild card. This is this is disastrous for the Eagles.
Speaker 1: And you talked about it last week. This is a team.
Speaker 1: Everything was clicking, they were healthy, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Jalen Hurts injury happens, and then the
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson injury happens. These things are happening at the
Speaker 1: wrong time. Unlike the forty Niners, who dealt with injuries
Speaker 1: early on in the season, we're able to build their depth,
Speaker 1: get back be healthy at the perfect time. This Philly
Speaker 1: team is reeling, Rich, and you hit on it. I
Speaker 1: mean they're reeling on multiple levels. Their defense, you know,
Speaker 1: played okay today, but they're old line. I mean without
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson, they gave up five sacks in the first
Speaker 1: half and they hadn't allowed four sacks in a game
Speaker 1: prior to this. Rich, I mean, the offensive line without
Speaker 1: Lane Johnson is going to be a big, big issue.
Speaker 1: And now they gotta win against a division foe in
Speaker 1: the New York Giants to just maintain this number one seed.
Speaker 1: This could be disaster zone for this team. Rich. It
Speaker 1: could be bad because now you you have to you
Speaker 1: may have to force Jalen Hurts in earlier than you
Speaker 1: wanted to. You were you were sitting there in a
Speaker 1: comfortable position. We talked about a few weeks ago, comfortable position.
Speaker 1: Everything is all good. You can tell your time. And
Speaker 1: I told you, Mitchell, if you have a shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: you missed more than one game, you missed two games. Mitchell.
Speaker 1: It's serious. It's serious. These are tough individuals. They know
Speaker 1: what it takes to win. They know they hide playing tolerance.
Speaker 1: And he's out if he misses this next one with
Speaker 1: everything on the line and they potentially lose, this could
Speaker 1: ruin that they all of a sudden are on a
Speaker 1: road team in every playoff game. If you want to
Speaker 1: make it to the super Bowl, you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go to Dallas. Potentially, you're gonna have to go to
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Potentially, you're gonna have to go You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to go on the road. You're gonna have to
Speaker 1: show that you deserve this super Bowl because your quarterback. Guy.
Speaker 1: That's why it's so hard to win a super Bowl
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, because when you get injured,
Speaker 1: how you get injured? Who gets injured? Lane Johnson is
Speaker 1: not just one of the best players on that old line,
Speaker 1: He's one of the best players on their team. So
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel his loss and you're feeling in a
Speaker 1: tremendous way. You can't protect the quarterback to win. I
Speaker 1: want to talk about the quarterback, and I want to
Speaker 1: talk about the style of quarterback, and Jalen Hurts, he's
Speaker 1: a dynamic game changer. But guys like this that get
Speaker 1: out of the pocket and create stuff on their feet
Speaker 1: are more and more injury prone. I mean, and watching
Speaker 1: the Lions game to game, Justin Fields has taken hits
Speaker 1: that you know, two pound running backs shouldn't be taken,
Speaker 1: and he's taken ten of them a game. You're bound
Speaker 1: to be injured at some point. I mean, we saw
Speaker 1: it with Lamar Jackson. You're spot on with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: You said he's gonna sit down. He's gonna sit down
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna sit down for the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been back yet. How do you prevent
Speaker 1: this as a running quarterback? Because they are the nice,
Speaker 1: shiny objects that totally transform offenses, But with one wrong hit,
Speaker 1: that offense is back to Gardner Menshew or you know,
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton or Tyler Huntley. You know this is these
Speaker 1: are one wrong play away from ruining a team season,
Speaker 1: how do you coach? You're gonna miss you? Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: nothing excitement. So HiT's the risk you take when you
Speaker 1: when you get that style the quarterback you run across
Speaker 1: the fingers. You you crossed the fingers. You you have
Speaker 1: a competent backup that has a similar skill set. That's
Speaker 1: what the Baltimore Ravens. That's the strategy they went with.
Speaker 1: Um it's weird that the Philadelphia Eagles didn't go with
Speaker 1: that strategy to go with a similar body type. So
Speaker 1: somebody that can come in and be able to do
Speaker 1: at least some of the things he could do, you know,
Speaker 1: not maybe not everything, but he can get some of
Speaker 1: the things done. He has some mobility. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's nothing to play for, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Fortnander has had a running quarterback. He
Speaker 1: got hurt and they had a pocket board a pockets
Speaker 1: as pocket of a quarterback as you can be pocket
Speaker 1: and he got hurt. You know, so it quarterbacks get
Speaker 1: hurt in the National Football League. You gotta have a
Speaker 1: good old line. You got a block for him, and
Speaker 1: freaky things happened. But the key is having capable backups
Speaker 1: that can get it done. That is the the sign
Speaker 1: of any successful team. You're gonna have guys played that
Speaker 1: we weren't expected to be starters, and if you want
Speaker 1: to win in his football league, they better produced at
Speaker 1: a level comparable to the guys they were placing. Well.
Speaker 1: We saw it in Miami is out again with another concussion.
Speaker 1: This is becoming a huge storyline in his career. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to speculate on what's going on, but
Speaker 1: certainly that number of concussions and big time hits in
Speaker 1: a season take their toll. But Teddy Bridgewater came in
Speaker 1: inevitably got knocked out, and they're left with Skyler Thompson.
Speaker 1: Now Miami is on the outside looking in, and the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, who we just flat out rode off
Speaker 1: a few weeks back, are now win away from getting
Speaker 1: into this playoffs. Do you like either one of these
Speaker 1: teams here? Or is it? Is it done with the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and Patriots. We're in playoff season, Mitchell, and and
Speaker 1: they're there there their prey right now. You know, they're
Speaker 1: just part of the cycle of life. At this point.
Speaker 1: You're not expecting either of those teams to go compete
Speaker 1: for Super Bowl that they will be you know, maybe
Speaker 1: they have a win in the first round and you
Speaker 1: know they upset somebody. We're on somebody season. But we're
Speaker 1: talking about from the sc side. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bilds. We're talking about the Kansas City chief and
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals. Those are the teams that you're expecting
Speaker 1: to do damage. And then you got the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 1: We we talked about the Mark Jackson, what he does.
Speaker 1: If he's not back, you don't really feel that there're
Speaker 1: a threat to throwing anybody. Their defense is playing okay
Speaker 1: down the stretch, but they need points. And without Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Tyler Huntley is doing his best impression. But Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: was an m v P candidate for a reason. He's
Speaker 1: not having his best season, but he creates an element
Speaker 1: that that few people can so. I mean, I still think,
Speaker 1: you know, the NFC is San Francisco, Philly, UM, Dallas
Speaker 1: is there. Green Bay is probably right after them, UM
Speaker 1: and if Tom plays like he does, then you know,
Speaker 1: anything can happen with those boys. I love to see
Speaker 1: it because everyone was righting off the NFC. I mean,
Speaker 1: there seemed to be only one one true team. You know,
Speaker 1: at least two two true teams, the Eagles and the Niners.
Speaker 1: And now we're seeing these, uh, these quarterbacks of old
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady all of a sudden turning
Speaker 1: to them old cells and giving them a shot. And
Speaker 1: rich we got a huge game tomorrow night and probably
Speaker 1: the best Monday night football game of the year, Buffalo
Speaker 1: against the Cincinnati Bengals. I want to talk about this
Speaker 1: game because I know it's gonna have serious implications on
Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's gonna have serious implications on the Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman power ranks. Richard, who do you like in this
Speaker 1: game going into Monday Night? The way Josh Allen has
Speaker 1: been playing down the stretch, He's second, our third in
Speaker 1: the league. UM and interceptions throwing the game. Uh, He's
Speaker 1: throwing thirteen and majority of them, probably half of them
Speaker 1: is coming the red zone at the most inopportune times,
Speaker 1: and it's not seeming like he's gonna stop anytime soon. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Joe Burrow is hot as fish grease right now.
Speaker 1: He's playing well, his receivers are healthy, his old lines
Speaker 1: playing as good as they played in a really, really
Speaker 1: long time. They're explosive, their defense is so scrappy, and
Speaker 1: and they're playing at high level. They're getting hot at
Speaker 1: the right time. That's why it's nobody wants Cincinnati to
Speaker 1: come to their stadium in the playoffs. Nobody wants to
Speaker 1: see that Bengal, those Bengal stripes come into their stadium
Speaker 1: because it's gonna be you're likely gonna go home. And
Speaker 1: and he's proving it against my owns. I know Kansas
Speaker 1: City don't want to see him again. They've they've as
Speaker 1: to him three times in this calendar year, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they want to see him again. There's just
Speaker 1: something different about Joe Burrow Rich. I mean, even in college,
Speaker 1: he just is unwilling to lose, you know. And and
Speaker 1: he has taken the Cincinnati Bengals team, an organization that
Speaker 1: was a relatively acting stock for a couple of decades,
Speaker 1: and turned them into uh NFL power, you know. And
Speaker 1: I don't see that changing any time in the foreseeable future.
Speaker 1: I mean, this might be Joe Burrows League if he's
Speaker 1: able to bring home a Super Bowl trophy, but it's
Speaker 1: just gonna be a heck of a game, certainly going
Speaker 1: to the next week. This NFL season is getting wilder
Speaker 1: and wilder by the week. I'll let you sign us
Speaker 1: off as we conclude Week six. Team. Well, another weird
Speaker 1: thing that's gonna happen is is the Bengals don't pay
Speaker 1: anybody pass guaranteed money passed one year into your contract. Um,
Speaker 1: so Mike Brown is either gonna have to trade Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow or our figure something else out where he maximizes
Speaker 1: this contract because he's likely gonna be making fifty five
Speaker 1: to sixty million dollars and a lot of it is
Speaker 1: gonna need to be guarante t But that's against everything
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals have done in the past. Jamaar Chase
Speaker 1: is also coming up, so it's good problems to have,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be very interesting to see how that
Speaker 1: shakes out going going forward. But thank you again for
Speaker 1: joining us on Richard Truman Podcast. It's me, my guy,
Speaker 1: Mitch Eisenstein, and we'll see you next week. The volume