Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast lead to the league in
Speaker 1: game winning drives from the Chris Wesley podcast studio, It's
Speaker 1: Around the NFL the week fifteen flagship program, whoa Dan
Speaker 1: Hans is here with Heroes Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler And
Speaker 1: when Argentina took the World Cup home on penalty shots
Speaker 1: at twelve fifty seven pm Eastern, it felt like a
Speaker 1: hole that the NFL would not be able to dig
Speaker 1: out of. It's a big deep um one of the
Speaker 1: great greatest sporting events of the twenty one century. Uh
Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna say anything that happened in the
Speaker 1: NFL today tops what Messi and friends accomplished and shout
Speaker 1: out to France. Gave it there all. Sure, but man,
Speaker 1: we had some bangers in our league today. It was
Speaker 1: a hard cut from it like yesterday, one of the
Speaker 1: most memorable sporting events ever to Jacksonville within like three
Speaker 1: minutes if you were in the States and watching on Fox.
Speaker 1: And yet you know what those Jaguars delivered, Just like
Speaker 1: so many other games today, you just don't You didn't
Speaker 1: want to have a big lead in this weekend. I
Speaker 1: was thinking that this you know, we always say, oh,
Speaker 1: this was the best week of the year and this
Speaker 1: was but also going back to the entirety of our show,
Speaker 1: I mean because it it encapsulated the entire We've been
Speaker 1: bathed in football since like early Saturday, and it's been
Speaker 1: NonStop and it hasn't really had a dip in terms
Speaker 1: of the drama in the action. So I would have
Speaker 1: nominated as the best week of football we've had every
Speaker 1: in our podcast that said, I can't really remember any
Speaker 1: of the other weeks. I feel like in a weekly basis,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I feel like we had this conversation
Speaker 1: maybe two weeks ago that was the best week, but
Speaker 1: also the later you get now into the season. Remember
Speaker 1: what we talked about Thursday, it says gotta have it
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday in the NFL, So a lot of
Speaker 1: these games and how they ended have immense ramifications. Uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think MESSI was feeling the heat from
Speaker 1: NFL Network. They're like, wow, NFL Network had a triple
Speaker 1: header and had the biggest comeback ever, and that Bill's
Speaker 1: Dolphins game maybe the most memorable game of the year.
Speaker 1: We need to step it up. That's when you saw
Speaker 1: all the um the natives of Argentina at the game, sobbing,
Speaker 1: they were saying him, so, oh my god, we we
Speaker 1: finally outshine the Ravens and Browns. Well, we don't speak
Speaker 1: about that part of the triple header. In fact, as
Speaker 1: we get into the games, you'll you'll notice in the
Speaker 1: structuring here, we're gonna hit the two uh insta classics
Speaker 1: from Saturday, and then we're gonna kick that other a
Speaker 1: f C North game down the list a little bit,
Speaker 1: because quite frankly, there are a large handful, a bushel
Speaker 1: of great games to get to. So let's start, yes
Speaker 1: on Saturday, and let's start with the first game of
Speaker 1: the week and what I call the greatest lock that
Speaker 1: has ever been locked in his real blocks. Let's go
Speaker 1: snap spot show right footed kicks. It is the Middlestone
Speaker 1: Vikings have completed the greatest comeback in the history how
Speaker 1: the National Football League from thirty three down they beat
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis coach. The Vikings are NFC North champions. That
Speaker 1: reminds me actually, oh yes, of course, Dongo to Bongo
Speaker 1: approves um midway through this game, when it was zero
Speaker 1: at half. I believe was our buddy Aaron Nagler, who
Speaker 1: covers all things Packers, We either tweeted or retweeted something
Speaker 1: on the lines of, oh I up to hear a
Speaker 1: sizzle reel of Paul Allen today, Uh, Paul Allen of
Speaker 1: k f A N Well, it ends up we did
Speaker 1: hear kf fvans Paul Allen on this program, because yes,
Speaker 1: the Vikings do something that's never been done in the
Speaker 1: history of the NFL, which is one three years by
Speaker 1: the way, they erase a thirty three point devisit beat
Speaker 1: the Colts six on Greg Joseph's forty yard field goal
Speaker 1: with three seconds left in overtime, and yes, that's how
Speaker 1: they finally, at long last clinched the NFC North and
Speaker 1: um mark. This is a game that I don't even
Speaker 1: know where to start on this one, because it's a game.
Speaker 1: You can watch football your whole life and never see
Speaker 1: anything like this. I mean, I'd start with the whole
Speaker 1: that they buried themselves in and it was just it's
Speaker 1: one of these games on Twitter where the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 1: who have been suspicious to onlookers all season for their
Speaker 1: ability to go to sleep and then maybe wake up
Speaker 1: at the last minute when these one one score games
Speaker 1: that are regression candidate This was the game where it
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this is the Vikings team we don't trust.
Speaker 1: You have a blocked punt return twenty four yards for
Speaker 1: a touchdown. You have a lost fumble near the red zone,
Speaker 1: a botched fake punt that led to another score, and
Speaker 1: a seventeen yard pick six. I mean, all this stuff
Speaker 1: just unraveled in such inglorious fashion that the Vikings were
Speaker 1: called out as total frauds and suddenly we're happening rightfully.
Speaker 1: I think these jeff Saturday on Saturday jokes. I mean,
Speaker 1: every every ugly thing is happening. At one point it
Speaker 1: looks like justin Jefferson, stuck on the ground not moving,
Speaker 1: you might have just gone to the darkest possible place
Speaker 1: for the Vikings. And then they work their way out
Speaker 1: of it and everything turns around, and what we think
Speaker 1: about the Vikings at the end of the day is
Speaker 1: completely different. And I look at this Vikings team in
Speaker 1: terms of how they must be built mentally and psychout
Speaker 1: psychologically inside that locker room is they can think they
Speaker 1: can win any game ever, and they've done it twice
Speaker 1: now this season. Well, they were they were let back
Speaker 1: into it in many different ways by the Colts playing
Speaker 1: it's safe the only way that could happen. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: other team really has to step up in this. Jeff
Speaker 1: Jeff Saturday, it doesn't seem like he's getting a lot
Speaker 1: of the heat here. I see a lot of Like
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is the you know, owner of the two
Speaker 1: biggest comebacks in the history of the NFL, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I mean, they did put up thirty three in this game,
Speaker 1: kind of like they put up thirty five, although they
Speaker 1: somehow put up thirty six points in the end in
Speaker 1: this game with one offensive touchdown and a lot of
Speaker 1: the reason they didn't score more as they kept running
Speaker 1: the ball on like third and five inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard line and settling for field goals. But so many
Speaker 1: things happened during this comeback. Only Kirk Cousins could come
Speaker 1: back in a game where like I think his PFF
Speaker 1: score for what it's worth, in this game was like
Speaker 1: it was terrible because he had a couple turnover where
Speaker 1: he plays during the comeback. Here are some things that happened.
Speaker 1: He threw an interception in the fourth quarter with eight
Speaker 1: minutes left, up sixteen. Uh. The Colts had a first
Speaker 1: down in this game down sixteen sorry. Yeah, the Colts
Speaker 1: had a first down in this game, up eight with
Speaker 1: under four minutes to go. There were the two Vikings
Speaker 1: overturned touchdowns which were just really frustrating, and he goes
Speaker 1: in the worst off official game we've ever seen and
Speaker 1: it feels good. There was an ultimate ball don't lie
Speaker 1: situation coming back. And we also saw Jeff Saturday pass
Speaker 1: on a potential game winning fifty three yard field goal
Speaker 1: in a day whereas kicker was the best now on
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, I thought I thought it was let's
Speaker 1: talk about that fumble the return um the same, the
Speaker 1: same Vikings defensive back who who is it again? Shandon Sullivan. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Sullivan had two plays wrongly overturned that should have been
Speaker 1: touchdown returns. In the second one, it was absurd. Uh,
Speaker 1: there was no reason the whistle should have been blown
Speaker 1: on it. It should have been right there at that
Speaker 1: point in the game or the Vikings having a chance
Speaker 1: to tie it. And then I thought it was just
Speaker 1: um terrible that the officials, Okay, you blow the call,
Speaker 1: that's one thing, but then not have the common sense
Speaker 1: to uh give that guy a little Sullivan a break
Speaker 1: there and foul him for taking off his helmet on
Speaker 1: top of it, and then I thought about the other thing.
Speaker 1: After that all transpired, and then the ensuing by can
Speaker 1: Drive fizzles out, and the Colts have the ball and
Speaker 1: they have the fourth and one, and they decided to
Speaker 1: sneak it. I don't want to be a conspiracy theorist here,
Speaker 1: but those officials and the NFL knew they were having
Speaker 1: a terrible game, the refs, and it just interesting to
Speaker 1: me where that QB sneak on fourth down was measured
Speaker 1: and put down and what they used, which was blowing
Speaker 1: the whistle and getting to decide where the ball goes
Speaker 1: basically as opposed to where did he reach out, where
Speaker 1: his knee hit or whatever. That was very interesting to me,
Speaker 1: the way that all worked out that which then set up,
Speaker 1: of course, the Dalvin Cook touchdown on another unthinkable gaff
Speaker 1: by the culture. It seemed like they should have called
Speaker 1: that a first down by Matt Ryan and it was
Speaker 1: the first down. I mean, Justin Jefferson had a touchdown
Speaker 1: taken away last week by a terrible call where he
Speaker 1: was ruled out of mound and he wasn't They The
Speaker 1: first Channon Sullivan situation led to directly the Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: pick six. All right, the second Chandon Sullivan situation led
Speaker 1: to the turnover on downs late in the game. But meltdown,
Speaker 1: we talked about these things should not have happened. This
Speaker 1: was the first of all, if you're an official, you
Speaker 1: are trained to not blow the whistle early if you
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what happened. If you don't know that
Speaker 1: it's a dead ball. That's not what's not happening here
Speaker 1: at the NFL level. And the Vikings basically should never
Speaker 1: as as ghastly as their first half was. This should
Speaker 1: never have gone to overtime. It should never have been
Speaker 1: as dramatic as it was. That should have clat out
Speaker 1: won the game in regulation had it been called correctly.
Speaker 1: When Vikings fans have a reason because they it does
Speaker 1: feel like week to weeks stuff. Stuff is happening again.
Speaker 1: That justin Jefferson thing a week ago was huge. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing, though, they it was a perfect game for
Speaker 1: both of these teams. It was a perfect showcase for
Speaker 1: these two teams this season. For the Vikings to come
Speaker 1: back and now be the author of the greatest comeback
Speaker 1: in NFL history, but for that come back to be
Speaker 1: so weird. But yeah, like I said, Cousins had a
Speaker 1: fifty seven p f F F grade in this game. They
Speaker 1: also had I don't care that, No, I don't care,
Speaker 1: of course, a possession in overtime where they had to
Speaker 1: punt the ball away. That was like a moment where
Speaker 1: he thought they actually might lose it because the Colts
Speaker 1: started moving the ball back. K j Osborne stepped up
Speaker 1: and we shouldn't like the football, you know. Takeaways from
Speaker 1: this which is like he looks like a true one.
Speaker 1: He made himself some money. He's not a free agent
Speaker 1: yet saying, I mean, he is a guy you can
Speaker 1: go to in major spots. And Dalvin Cook to get
Speaker 1: them within two late in the game, had one of
Speaker 1: the runs of the year. Do we have the call
Speaker 1: for that run? Because I would love to hear Paul
Speaker 1: Allen at some point on that run because him breaking
Speaker 1: those taxles to me was one of the all time
Speaker 1: like runs that we've seen, and it kind of gotten
Speaker 1: buried in everything else happened. It's so easy for things buried.
Speaker 1: And the thing about we talked about yesterday, Greggy, you
Speaker 1: were in my living room. That was nice. Mark you
Speaker 1: were out of town otherwise you would have been invited. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you, I'm I'm sorry to missing Lakisha was with us,
Speaker 1: was very nice. Um, it's not like Vikings, as you're saying,
Speaker 1: played a perfect second half to the only way you
Speaker 1: could ever come back from thirty three zip is to
Speaker 1: play the perfect half of the other team has to joke. No,
Speaker 1: the Vikings are still kind of like go ahead calls,
Speaker 1: finish this game off, and they just couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: They had nineteen possessions in the game. That's how you
Speaker 1: do it. And and Kirk Cousins, I don't really care
Speaker 1: about the grade or whatever. All I know is he
Speaker 1: finished with four touchdowns in four sixty yards in a
Speaker 1: game they were being shut out at halftime, which that's
Speaker 1: certainly never happened in football history. And let's hear from
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, the Vikings coach, who, by the you know,
Speaker 1: had to be feeling it on a level. Perhaps he
Speaker 1: never has felt it on a football field. When I
Speaker 1: tell you, guys, oh priyant coach alert, I tell you guys,
Speaker 1: I love you. I'm leading from the bottom of my
Speaker 1: heart and that will never change. I will ride with
Speaker 1: this group until they don't want us playing buddy, and
Speaker 1: then I want to hear you guys celebrate it. There
Speaker 1: are so many stories coming out of this game that
Speaker 1: Greg Manuski, the linebackers coach, told Eric Kendricks just out
Speaker 1: of halftime, I guarantee this will be the biggest comeback
Speaker 1: in the NFL in NFL history. Eric Kendricks basically said
Speaker 1: that when the reporters came back to he just said, reporters,
Speaker 1: get out here, this is our time. We don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with you right now. And Patrick Peterson was
Speaker 1: the guy that I had halftime, kept shouting five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: It's all you need, we got you. And the one
Speaker 1: thing about Kirk Cousins, because maybe the overall grade was bad,
Speaker 1: but if you go look at e p A for instance,
Speaker 1: in this second half, he generated the second most passing
Speaker 1: ep A in the second the second half and overtime
Speaker 1: by a quarterback all season. And he had more open
Speaker 1: receivers at in the second half than twice than twice
Speaker 1: in the first. Just saying that his second half grade,
Speaker 1: what if they break it down the way was phenomenal,
Speaker 1: That's what I mean though, Like he had to have
Speaker 1: so many chance that's why he was so interested they
Speaker 1: had nineteen possessions like I mentioned for instance, like the
Speaker 1: Browns and the Ravens had nine each in their games.
Speaker 1: They felt they have seventeen. They were able to withstand
Speaker 1: Cousins throwing that interception in the fourth quarter and turning
Speaker 1: the ball over on downs when he made a ghastly
Speaker 1: decision to run out of nowhere on fourth down and
Speaker 1: got tackled because the defense of the Vikings stepped up
Speaker 1: and just totally stopped Matt Ryan and the Colts from
Speaker 1: doing anything. And the Colts would be back in the
Speaker 1: little uh in the race hunt in the hunt graphic
Speaker 1: if not for this result, because uh, and yes I
Speaker 1: did lock up the Vikings. That is a that that
Speaker 1: will never happen again, either I did. I did send
Speaker 1: a text at one point that you know, I gotta
Speaker 1: stay in lock mode, get it to thirty to seven,
Speaker 1: start forcing some turnovers and let it get weird look
Speaker 1: at too. So. But I also was outwardly like pushing
Speaker 1: for the cancelation in the Minnesota Vikings in the first
Speaker 1: half so on Twitter. So I love how when the
Speaker 1: Vikings are down by thirty plus points and I locked
Speaker 1: them up, they just lose forty to three. But when
Speaker 1: they're down, you lock them up, they come back. And
Speaker 1: that's that's how we're packet off. Buddy, all right, let's
Speaker 1: keep moving all time game there and then the late
Speaker 1: game on Saturday night, major implications in the a f C.
Speaker 1: To a snowy Orchard Park. We go here, we go,
Speaker 1: the game on the line. The snow is fine, the
Speaker 1: snapper is good, the hold is good, the kick is up,
Speaker 1: the kick is good. It is good. The fireworks go
Speaker 1: off to Bills, go back to the playoffs from the
Speaker 1: fourth consecutive year to Bills win it thirty two to
Speaker 1: twenty nine. Amazing, amazing, beautiful. John Murphy with the call
Speaker 1: w g R. That is Tyler Bass hitting a twenty
Speaker 1: five yard field goals time expired, pushing the Bills to
Speaker 1: a thirty victory over game Dolphins team on Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Buffalo overcame an eight point deficit um in the final quarter,
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen driving his team two scores on each
Speaker 1: of the final two possessions. And yes, it's the fourth
Speaker 1: strade playoff birth for the Bills. They're five, fifth and
Speaker 1: six seasons under Sean McDermott. Greggy Um, like I said,
Speaker 1: you gotta credit the Dolphins. They went up there. They
Speaker 1: played a really good game. I challenged on this podcast
Speaker 1: toa to have any ability to throw the ball with
Speaker 1: um any level of success, and he had plenty of success.
Speaker 1: In fact, those receivers let him down pretty big time
Speaker 1: in some big spots Um and yet Buffalo found a
Speaker 1: way and as a result, they're gonna win this division.
Speaker 1: I just think of those last two drives, they're down
Speaker 1: one at home, it almost felt like it was scripted
Speaker 1: by NBC. Let's keep the field nice and clean, good weather,
Speaker 1: Let's have some offense early. Let's add the snow in
Speaker 1: the fourth as the big finish. Let's get the stop
Speaker 1: uh from the Bill's defense. A couple of times where
Speaker 1: it was NFL network. By the way, what am I thinking?
Speaker 1: They get a couple of stops with two where there's miscommunication,
Speaker 1: not exactly bad places, but they get a couple of
Speaker 1: stuffs down eight in those two drive We're really telling
Speaker 1: because the first one was running the ball down their throats.
Speaker 1: That Alan when he needs to can just take off
Speaker 1: and run. And they get a big run from James
Speaker 1: Cook and they get that touchdown quickly. Then they get
Speaker 1: they get to stop uh to tie game. They get
Speaker 1: the ball back with almost six minutes to go, and
Speaker 1: they do the type of drive we don't think that
Speaker 1: Bills can kind of do a six minute drive where
Speaker 1: they just take the will away from the Dolphins. And
Speaker 1: it's not really with the running games. It was with
Speaker 1: those arm throws that Josh Allen can make that to
Speaker 1: a can that nobody can except for maybe Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: Some of those opposite field hash throws, including on that
Speaker 1: last drive, including a third down play there, like are
Speaker 1: just plays people can't make, and he made a few
Speaker 1: of those in this game to score touchdowns early. But
Speaker 1: I love that he did it late using his mind,
Speaker 1: knowing exactly when they were blitzing, when they were dropping
Speaker 1: off coverage, exactly who to go to. Every decision was
Speaker 1: just absolutely spot on, and you win a division in
Speaker 1: a different situation. Know what the Bills team we've seen
Speaker 1: maybe they melt because at one point it was second
Speaker 1: and eighteen at the Buffalo thirteen, after Allen had been
Speaker 1: dropped on a big takedown and he completes the fifteen
Speaker 1: yard to gave David that writes an arm strength throw
Speaker 1: right there, you know. Then he converts the third, the
Speaker 1: third down, third and three throw as well. So you're right,
Speaker 1: there were two very different drivers because the one previous
Speaker 1: where Alan who accounted for yards on the day and
Speaker 1: four touchdowns. It's like, Okay, he's back, We're good with that.
Speaker 1: Fifty two yards on the one drive and the game
Speaker 1: time two point conversion. Just you know, he had offensive
Speaker 1: lineman out Mitch Morriscott hurt in this. They were already
Speaker 1: missing a guard. It's like they've been dealing with offensive
Speaker 1: line issues for weeks. He just put it on his
Speaker 1: back in a snowy environment and he did it. I
Speaker 1: loved it. We were waiting for what can he do?
Speaker 1: Like when you're watching this, Dan Dar, aren't you thinking
Speaker 1: like this is one of the best quarterbacks I've ever
Speaker 1: seen in my life. Like this game showed him doing
Speaker 1: every different possible thing that you can do as a quarterback. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think what makes him so special is that that
Speaker 1: variety of skills he brings. If you need to make
Speaker 1: uh Herbert like throw, he can give you that. If
Speaker 1: you need him to truck somebody, he can do that.
Speaker 1: If you need him to get down the edge and
Speaker 1: shoot down the sideline fifty yards, he could do that.
Speaker 1: He's he's the perfect quarterback in a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: and in the perfect city and the perfect region, like
Speaker 1: he's built for this type of weather. I just thought, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a special, fun game, a Saturday
Speaker 1: night game in December that everybody in that stadium will
Speaker 1: remember that one forever and again, like to circle back
Speaker 1: to Miami, I think, you know, this is where they
Speaker 1: I think, not just to meet but anybody else who
Speaker 1: was doubting them. They can. They're not gonna collapse. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I think they They're gonna get one of
Speaker 1: those wild card spots and they could be a tough
Speaker 1: out in the playoffs. I don't think they're a perfect team,
Speaker 1: but being able to hang in that setting really showed
Speaker 1: their abilities. As frustrating as that was, and I mean
Speaker 1: specifically on the offensive side, that they were able to
Speaker 1: go into the elements and move the ball when necessary.
Speaker 1: I think that right number one, Mike McDaniels psychologically kind
Speaker 1: of prepped them for we don't care about the weather.
Speaker 1: That's not gonna be an excuse, which I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's what Dolphins teams have been, but
Speaker 1: some kind of would go up there and fold. But secondly,
Speaker 1: the concept of like oh had they been figured out
Speaker 1: after the Niners and Chargers meltdowns. The defensive coordinators now
Speaker 1: have a road map to slow down too. And the
Speaker 1: whole thing well last night, I mean it wasn't perfect,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that was proven at all. They can,
Speaker 1: They're gonna They're gonna figure out their own way to
Speaker 1: counteract what people are doing to them. Their defense didn't
Speaker 1: come up big in a few crucial spots. You know,
Speaker 1: they came back and that came down fourteen or thirteen
Speaker 1: at one point all the way to up, so they
Speaker 1: ripped off those sixteen points and then the defense didn't
Speaker 1: play as well. But you gotta love what you got
Speaker 1: out of Raheem Most there. You get the big play
Speaker 1: out of Jalen Waddle like most, and their running game
Speaker 1: can change it. And uh, it's just cool to even
Speaker 1: have the Dolphins involved in games like this. I'm with you, Dada.
Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna collapse. I think they make
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'll remember this game forever. I was watching
Speaker 1: it in Hanano Cafe with Keisha and there's a band
Speaker 1: playing there. This is you know, we wish Chris Westling
Speaker 1: was here with this obvious sleep for this show, and
Speaker 1: I really wish he was there with us last night.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a band playing, and you're seeing the
Speaker 1: snow fallen in Buffalo, and you got all the holiday
Speaker 1: lights and Keisha and we're having a good time just
Speaker 1: watching like a classic NFL game. Good stuff. I have
Speaker 1: a question for Greg, Yes, were you in Buffalo observing this,
Speaker 1: would you have been one of the people throwing the snowballs?
Speaker 1: Or do you not approve of that type of behavior?
Speaker 1: Good question. I don't have a hot take on this.
Speaker 1: Would you don't think I would be throwing snowballs at anyone? Know?
Speaker 1: I mean maybe on my friends. I would not be
Speaker 1: throwing it on the field. So all right, so had
Speaker 1: a friend, Okay, that's fair. Yeah. The Dolphins did have
Speaker 1: four hundred and five yards of offense. Uh in this game.
Speaker 1: They ran for more than a hundred yards for the
Speaker 1: first time since Week ten. But they've also now lost
Speaker 1: all three of their December games. So they have the
Speaker 1: Packers coming up, and that's they gotta win. They gotta
Speaker 1: end this um losing streak. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: if they would have went up there and gotten their
Speaker 1: doors blown off. We would be it's it's it's an avalanche.
Speaker 1: See how it all ties together. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that's where they're at. Let's see how they close their season.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we continue to roll through
Speaker 1: Week fifteen. Let's get the Sunday. All right, two games Saturday.
Speaker 1: Let's get the Sunday starting with man. Who would have
Speaker 1: thought here as we edge toward late December, we'd be
Speaker 1: rushing to get to a game from Jacksonville. But that's
Speaker 1: where we're at is the Jaguars are on the prowl
Speaker 1: and the guy behind the glass grave Digger knows it.
Speaker 1: Let's go. He dropped a throw looking looking fires bill
Speaker 1: of the field, and that ball is picked off. It
Speaker 1: is picked off a race Shaw Jaket. He's running it
Speaker 1: back along the right sideline. That is gonna be a touchdown,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a touchdown. But Jack's are gonna
Speaker 1: win it. What a race? Shaw Jaket. Pitch six? Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? How good is that? What a finish
Speaker 1: in this ball game? Oh? I think we might need
Speaker 1: to isolate how good is that? Justin for our podcast
Speaker 1: going forward from Frank Frangie w okav Race San Jenkins
Speaker 1: have a game. Kid. Myron Jenkins intercepted Dak Prescott's tip
Speaker 1: pass and overtime took it to the house fifty two
Speaker 1: yards and the Jags stunned the Dallas Cowboys forty to
Speaker 1: thirty four. This was a Jaguars team down to ten
Speaker 1: in this game, um, and then it became a big
Speaker 1: time back and forth affair. Greggy, the Jags they're coming
Speaker 1: and they got a kid, QB that's figured some things
Speaker 1: out as well. There's a period in every Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: game now that for one quarter he just like levitates
Speaker 1: and just hits target after target an impossible spot. And
Speaker 1: that was during this comeback, and not all of them
Speaker 1: were even caught, and they made it, and I wasn't surprised,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad you jin Jenkins to start it because
Speaker 1: the play before the pick six, Jenkins comes up in
Speaker 1: a run fit and he was doing this all day.
Speaker 1: He ended up, I think you mentioned, with eighteen tackles
Speaker 1: and the two interceptions and he stuffs them on second
Speaker 1: and four before that, it was it was the second
Speaker 1: drive of overtime, so all the Cowboys needed was a
Speaker 1: field goal, and they had moved the ball well all day.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard rips off like a twenty yard run. Then
Speaker 1: they get ten yards, they're at midfield and they have
Speaker 1: a second and four. Jenkins comes in with the run
Speaker 1: stop to make it third and four, and then he
Speaker 1: does the pick six right after that. He also really
Speaker 1: started this comeback going into overdrive with an interception that
Speaker 1: people are gonna get on Dak Prescott about, and they should.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott played a great game otherwise, and it's weird.
Speaker 1: I've seen people blame this. It was literally a great
Speaker 1: throw that was the pick six at overtime. The guy
Speaker 1: dropped it, hit him in the bicep on the move.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a perfect throw. Uh So I'm
Speaker 1: not blaming Dak Prescott that for all. But there was
Speaker 1: one moment when the comeback was going on where that
Speaker 1: totally panicked under pressure, threw it up. Jenkins got it
Speaker 1: and they caught up quickly. It was one of those
Speaker 1: comebacks that time was not a factor. They caught up
Speaker 1: seventeen points in no time and took the lead. It
Speaker 1: was the Cowboys who had to come back and take
Speaker 1: the lead. Something about this offense because it feels like
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence Um totally connects with someone different every week
Speaker 1: and they explode, like Zay Jones three touchdowns day. Jones
Speaker 1: like was essentially on the edge of not having a
Speaker 1: career a couple of years ago. So it's working. I
Speaker 1: think this is a massive win for Doug Peterson. This
Speaker 1: is a team that knocked out the Ravens, they beat
Speaker 1: the Titans, they got a chance to go against the Jets,
Speaker 1: and suddenly who would have looked at that Jets Jaguars
Speaker 1: game back in September and said, why on Earth is
Speaker 1: that scheduled for as an island affair late in the season.
Speaker 1: It's actually the game, Like the Jaguars feel like the
Speaker 1: more relevant team that I mean, we've forked the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: We were we were about to get in travel with
Speaker 1: one of them. Let me check out the standings here
Speaker 1: after and we'll get to the Titans. But spoiler aler
Speaker 1: and it didn't go well. Uh here, it's so far. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jaguars are one game out now and they play each
Speaker 1: other in Week eighteen, so it's all there for the
Speaker 1: Jacks to steal this division. Uh. It is. It's a
Speaker 1: team that I listen as a jetsman. I don't want
Speaker 1: anything to do with them right now because they're playing
Speaker 1: with confidence. And let's hear it from Trevor Lawrence, because
Speaker 1: again it's not just Lawrence, it's the whole operation, which
Speaker 1: is vastly improved. That Doug Peterson leading the way, better roster,
Speaker 1: better scheme, and now a young quarterback who's you know,
Speaker 1: reaching his potential a little more suddenly than we expected, uh,
Speaker 1: compared to where we were in say, early October. Let's
Speaker 1: listen to Lawrence, who, by the way, it looks like
Speaker 1: he looks like the lead singer of the most popular
Speaker 1: Christian rock band in the world. Like it's accurate. All right,
Speaker 1: let's hear from I don't really care honestly what they
Speaker 1: what what people think? You know, I say that I
Speaker 1: do think. You know, it feels good to win a
Speaker 1: game like this, on a big game, national game, like
Speaker 1: you said, against a great team. Um, it feels good
Speaker 1: just to you know, show who we are. So I
Speaker 1: can't you can't lie. I mean that feels good to
Speaker 1: show people that, but it doesn't change anything about us.
Speaker 1: You know, we're the same group. We lost five games
Speaker 1: straight in October and everyone wrote us all so if
Speaker 1: you listen to what people say, you're not really in
Speaker 1: a good spot. So directly do I think also Dan
Speaker 1: look there looking looking at him, and that the presser
Speaker 1: there um, maybe maybe the fourth handsome brother that had
Speaker 1: less theatrical ambition and just decided not to join the
Speaker 1: one that you know played sports instead of went to
Speaker 1: the garage and wailed on the keyboard. Well, now we're
Speaker 1: talking about him, the ones that that's a foot taller
Speaker 1: and runs authority. It's crazy because kind of similar to
Speaker 1: the Kirk Cousins game of the Lawrence played really well throughout,
Speaker 1: including in the first half. It was a clean first half. Two.
Speaker 1: He had an interception in the third quarter, which was
Speaker 1: his first in a long time and was on him
Speaker 1: and he fumbled the ball with under a minute and
Speaker 1: a half left in this game on a wild scramble
Speaker 1: that appeared to be the moment where the game was lost.
Speaker 1: All the Cowboys needed to do at that point was
Speaker 1: get a first down to win, or at least get
Speaker 1: rid of the Jaguars time outs, but they decided to
Speaker 1: throw the ball on third and ten, kind of a
Speaker 1: prayer down the field. Mike McCarthy doesn't force him to
Speaker 1: use that last time out with a safer play call,
Speaker 1: and usually I'm I'm for going for it there on
Speaker 1: some level, but the fact that it was like a
Speaker 1: deep shot to Noah Brown, like fifty yards down the
Speaker 1: field uh ended up coming in very handy because the
Speaker 1: Jaguars needed that time out to force overtime and get
Speaker 1: the field goal. Yeah, And I do want because I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be checking this game out tomorrow and we have
Speaker 1: so much to get to today, so it shouldn't really
Speaker 1: focus on what's coming up next, But I do want
Speaker 1: to have the conversation at some point this week, Greg,
Speaker 1: is where where we where are we had on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys now after two so so games leading into now
Speaker 1: this loss um and the NFC East is now pretty
Speaker 1: much gone a tenant four and the Eagles are in
Speaker 1: total control of that division now even though they still
Speaker 1: have a head to head. So costly lost for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys who were probably now gonna be a wild card team,
Speaker 1: and watch out for the Jags, who not only have
Speaker 1: moved into the in the hunt wild card area now themselves,
Speaker 1: although you know a long shot in that department, they
Speaker 1: can outright win. Graduated from berserker category to the sitimate
Speaker 1: title threat in that division. I think that these Cowboys teams,
Speaker 1: who have had some bad Cowboys vibes over the years
Speaker 1: of like blowing it, at some point have to start
Speaker 1: being a little worried the way those game ended up
Speaker 1: on offense, UH four and out field goal, interception, three
Speaker 1: and out punt. Then they get the touchdown three and
Speaker 1: out pun and interception and over familiar rough way to
Speaker 1: end the Cowboys fans who have felt a lot of
Speaker 1: disappointment in December and January in the last quarter century. Alright,
Speaker 1: moving on, how about an NFC team that graduated from
Speaker 1: berserker to actual playoff part possibly, let's head to the
Speaker 1: meadow ends golf's gonna throw it back and looking growth
Speaker 1: wide open, the upside, rock right with it to the
Speaker 1: thirty crock right, twenty five brock right to the five
Speaker 1: touch down Detroit Lions. Oh my fifty one yard golf
Speaker 1: the brock right. How the Lions are back in front? Oh, Babby,
Speaker 1: how big is that? This is a the announcers losing
Speaker 1: their voice? Week? Go ahead, I opt out of this week, vadey.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pretend I wasn't loving and seeing that highlight?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding stones out. There was no Patriots game.
Speaker 1: The only game in town is the Detroit Lions. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I've no Dan for over a decade. To night,
Speaker 1: hes on his situation. You know, you got a real
Speaker 1: gift for pitch, right, This is a very special honor.
Speaker 1: And then I think we were breaking that out right away.
Speaker 1: We always do. And that shows an old juicer tug
Speaker 1: boat is he's looking out for the show first and foremost,
Speaker 1: because that was not a pleasant moment. Well, you're a showman.
Speaker 1: You are a showman, Dan, first and foremost. Well, you
Speaker 1: know who put on a show? Brock Wright. What fifty
Speaker 1: one yard touchdown? Uh? Catching run on a Jard Goff
Speaker 1: pass on fourth and inches from midfield with one forty
Speaker 1: nine to play. Uh puts the lines ahead after the
Speaker 1: Jets were that close to ceiling a massive wind and
Speaker 1: Uh it wasn't over though after that play, which made
Speaker 1: it all the more painful. The Jets get the ball back.
Speaker 1: Zack Wilson, who had a very up and down game here,
Speaker 1: Um completes a couple of miracle throws third and eighteen.
Speaker 1: I think they convert the fourth and forever they convert
Speaker 1: Um to stay alive, but some really suspect uh clock
Speaker 1: management by Robert Salo where they had all their time
Speaker 1: outs and yet put themselves in a position where they
Speaker 1: were kicking a fifty eight yard field goal with one
Speaker 1: second to play that would never really had a chance.
Speaker 1: Gregg the leg pushed it left. So yes, the lines
Speaker 1: escape with the win. UM. I wouldn't say that the
Speaker 1: you know, the Jets outplay the lines in this game.
Speaker 1: I think Detroit UM overall, UM felt like the better
Speaker 1: team for most of the game, and then the Jets
Speaker 1: were able to make some plays and and put a
Speaker 1: drive together in the second half to put them in
Speaker 1: the lead. And once they had the lead with about
Speaker 1: four minutes to go, you thought, okay, the defense, which
Speaker 1: again this Jet the defense even without Quinnon Williams, was
Speaker 1: doing really well. It slowed down the lines in a
Speaker 1: lot of areas they've thrived during this winning streak for
Speaker 1: the Lions. But in that spot, I gotta give credit
Speaker 1: to Ben Johnson Um specifically UM for a play call
Speaker 1: that had the Jets completely caught off guard at midfield.
Speaker 1: There that the whole defense followed a Monrod st Brown
Speaker 1: a cross on what they thought was going to be
Speaker 1: either a run or maybe a short like drag type
Speaker 1: pass to the right, and that allowed the backup tight
Speaker 1: end to sneak out and make the play of the
Speaker 1: year for the Lions. So it hurts, it stinks for
Speaker 1: the Jets, but for the Lions, it's another big win
Speaker 1: for a team that really is everyone's darling. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've unlocked a star with Ben Johnson, because I think
Speaker 1: that was the takeaway from the Vikings win a week
Speaker 1: ago for the for Detroit was that Ben Johnson was
Speaker 1: just a step ahead with a unique series with each
Speaker 1: play and then so did see that he tricked out
Speaker 1: the Jets to I mean, I would ask you, Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson may have to start Thursday. I saw one throw,
Speaker 1: the one where Garrett Wilson was so frustrated up to
Speaker 1: I think it was the third and twelve where he
Speaker 1: just totally missed. Garrett Wilson, That to me is the
Speaker 1: kind of throw that in recent weeks, Mike White was
Speaker 1: making that throw and that was sort of the difference
Speaker 1: in their offense. In their passing game, Wilson was not
Speaker 1: at I mean at least had a couple of big plays.
Speaker 1: I know, some of them seemed a little hokey, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't he It was just like a major roller coaster.
Speaker 1: It seemed like it was a roller coaster. I would
Speaker 1: not say he had a good game at all. He was.
Speaker 1: He threw three seventeen yards. He had two touchdowns. Like
Speaker 1: I said, if they get the stop on fourth and
Speaker 1: inches there before the touchdown by Detroit, everyone's talking about
Speaker 1: how he made a big throwdown field to Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: Then on a third and goal from the half yard line,
Speaker 1: he throws the ball to CJ. Zamba for the go
Speaker 1: ahead touchdown. So it's a totally different story. Um, but
Speaker 1: now that they lose, you have you can actually be
Speaker 1: a little more clinical and look at what he did,
Speaker 1: which was yes, he hit on some throws downfield, but
Speaker 1: still way too many misses on throws that have to
Speaker 1: be made, whether it's a wide open receiver or receiver
Speaker 1: that you know, they talked about an NFL open versus
Speaker 1: college open. Throws that aren't easy. But for a better quarterback,
Speaker 1: and even for a guy like Mike White, has been
Speaker 1: money in the bank. So that's what you saw. Garrett
Speaker 1: Wilson and some of these guys should calm down a
Speaker 1: little bit. About some of the histrionics on the field,
Speaker 1: because that's I don't think necessarily helpful. But what you
Speaker 1: saw there is that this team, you know, they they
Speaker 1: want Mike White playing, and the Jets were so desperate
Speaker 1: to have Mike White playing that Ian Rapport reported this
Speaker 1: morning that he has three fractures in his ribs and
Speaker 1: it's gonna miss two weeks at least. Um they they
Speaker 1: almost put him on the field in that state. So
Speaker 1: I think this is Zach Wilson's last stand here, I
Speaker 1: think as the Jets quarterback, and this was a very
Speaker 1: uneven result. And I think if Mike White is healthy,
Speaker 1: he absolutely will play Thursday. But I think the timing
Speaker 1: of this matchup it means we might get might get
Speaker 1: the final old Zach Wilson start, as they did get
Speaker 1: to Zach Wilson from a pr how to answer questions
Speaker 1: because they asked him after the game, do you think
Speaker 1: you should should start Thursday? Nice set up, Mark, that's
Speaker 1: good enough to deserve another starter. I like that. No,
Speaker 1: I think that's not up to me. Compute, compute and uh.
Speaker 1: For me, I think it comes back to how can
Speaker 1: I watch this film? How can I improve? And UH
Speaker 1: can I keep trying to put our offense in the
Speaker 1: best situation to win. We talked about it on the
Speaker 1: Friday Fun Show with Clay Bown. Like I said, he's
Speaker 1: under a lot of pressure in this game. And Patrick,
Speaker 1: as Patrick sometimes so things and he said, pressure isn't
Speaker 1: a thing, it's just that he's not good. But no,
Speaker 1: I think there was a lot of pressure beyond the
Speaker 1: pressure to perform, also to handle that situation. It's just
Speaker 1: been there's been a lot on his shoulders and he
Speaker 1: hasn't always been up to the task. But it wasn't
Speaker 1: all bad, but it certainly wasn't good. It was very
Speaker 1: up and date. The crowd was on him too. That
Speaker 1: I don't I don't care what anyone says. I don't
Speaker 1: think that feels good when you're a young player. When
Speaker 1: I watched him, I'm like, I am old because he
Speaker 1: looks twelve years old to me in that press conference,
Speaker 1: he's getting younger. It's like a little boy with like on,
Speaker 1: you know, a little eyes shadow under his eyes. It's
Speaker 1: a massive step and test the cast for the Lions
Speaker 1: to to go east in a cold situation, in a
Speaker 1: matchup that was basically even you look at any stats
Speaker 1: in this game in terms of yards average per play,
Speaker 1: certainly the score throughout the game. Like they each have
Speaker 1: their strengths and weaknesses, but it doesn't surprise me that
Speaker 1: these two teams who came in about it almost as
Speaker 1: a pick them like played even and the Lions weirdly
Speaker 1: haven't won many of those games. They've lost a lot
Speaker 1: of close games, they've won uh some blowouts. And it's
Speaker 1: sort of another box to check that you don't need
Speaker 1: the Lions offense to necessarily score thirty five every time
Speaker 1: for them to win. And I know they got helped
Speaker 1: out by Zach Wilson starting this game, but you get
Speaker 1: a couple of sacks out of Okwara and Kaminski gets
Speaker 1: when James Houston gets another sack, and it's crazy, this
Speaker 1: rookie pass rusher, and it's like they are getting contributions
Speaker 1: from a lot of different players. And they're now a
Speaker 1: half a game behind the final playoffs. About both them
Speaker 1: in the Seahawks at seven and seven, only half a
Speaker 1: game back with three weeks to go, and how how
Speaker 1: much one play can change everything. Just like I said,
Speaker 1: if the Jets get that stop at midfield, everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about Zack Wilson perseverance and leading that drive. If Jared
Speaker 1: Goff airmills that throw to the tight end and they lose,
Speaker 1: we're talking about how Jared Goff got found out against
Speaker 1: the big defense on the road when when actually the
Speaker 1: cards were down, but since the play call was brilliant
Speaker 1: and it was a can't misthrow, he hits it and
Speaker 1: the tight end does the rest and saves his numbers
Speaker 1: and they win the game. Not a great golf game.
Speaker 1: Something to keep an eye on now as we really
Speaker 1: get to the crucible and they and so they the Panthers.
Speaker 1: I locked it up. You did gotta have it, Sunday,
Speaker 1: I got. I had to have my my five game
Speaker 1: lock Street loss has come to an end. I finally
Speaker 1: got a win. Who like, literally no one even has
Speaker 1: a recollection in that where we all there when you
Speaker 1: did this, I guess, so congratulations justin big effort for you.
Speaker 1: You had a personal setback as well with your favorite team.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna Sean Kelly picked this lock for me.
Speaker 1: So there we go. There you go. You gotta go
Speaker 1: to the experts, go to the sharps. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a break and we'll get to more football. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: welcome back. Gotta have it Sunday. Let's keep moving with
Speaker 1: another game that will not soon be forgotten. At Jones
Speaker 1: hands it off On a later Montre Stevenson breaks out
Speaker 1: of a tackle at the fifty, has the forty five,
Speaker 1: breaks away from another tackle, pitches it backwards, and now
Speaker 1: Jakobe Meyer's spinning around. He throws, you're not losing fall
Speaker 1: towards another cracking voice. I can't believe what I just
Speaker 1: saw on the first night of a car Vegas going
Speaker 1: on there. I did not see the Hota plug put
Speaker 1: that in the best cause of the air, Please, I
Speaker 1: did not see that coming. The call there is by
Speaker 1: Jason Harrowitz. There you go. Can you really say I
Speaker 1: can't believe what I just saw. I can't believe that
Speaker 1: in this case, I guess I feel slightly trademark. Are
Speaker 1: LV Harrowitz in a big spot with the call? Chandler Jones,
Speaker 1: the former Patriot, probably no love lost between him and
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, to be the one just standing near midfield,
Speaker 1: minding his own business as all the everybody in the building, players, coaches,
Speaker 1: fifties sixties people in attendance, getting ready for overtime, and
Speaker 1: Jacobe Myers throws the ball up for grab, grabs, Chandler
Speaker 1: Jones catches it, stiff arms um mac Jones into Middle Earth,
Speaker 1: and then scores in stunning fashion. Final score thirty to
Speaker 1: Raiders over Pats. Unbelievable. We now welcome in the great
Speaker 1: Nick Shook the Raiders six and eight and and probably
Speaker 1: still there in the hunt, whether we want to believe
Speaker 1: it or not. They at six and eight, they're still there.
Speaker 1: And the Pats, in the crushing fashion, fall to seven
Speaker 1: and seven. I don't think have you ever seen anything
Speaker 1: like this shookie, high school, pop warn or college. No, No,
Speaker 1: I've seen it all. Now. I think this is where
Speaker 1: I call it a career. I'm gonna move on now, guys,
Speaker 1: and off in the sunset of retirement, because this is
Speaker 1: never going to be topped in stupidity, in unlikelihood, in
Speaker 1: the fact that he's stiffed farm not just anybody, but
Speaker 1: the quarter act, like you said, into Middle Earth, sending
Speaker 1: him through the turf at Allegiance Stadium. Just a remarkable finish.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can say I don't believe what
Speaker 1: I just saw, but I truly did not believe what
Speaker 1: I saw today. I mean, so Chandler Jones wound up
Speaker 1: with more yards after the catch than any pass catcher
Speaker 1: in this game, um, which says something about the offenses.
Speaker 1: But at least I'm the one thing that kind of
Speaker 1: bubbled up as the game ended is people saying, this
Speaker 1: is the stupidest thing that Bill Belichick has ever done.
Speaker 1: It's the most unbuilt Belichick in strategy. At the end
Speaker 1: of the game, he didn't do exactly. That's what why
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick calls Jacobe Myers did at least say, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm glad that they got the interview quickly, but that
Speaker 1: he just didn't see Chandler Jones there. Whether he did
Speaker 1: or not, this was not a Patriots plan here, Nick, Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: can I just say something? Well, now, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: does it? What's the thing that was the most stunning
Speaker 1: to me immediately in the seconds after? And by the way,
Speaker 1: Greg's fandom might be r I P because I'm standing
Speaker 1: next to him and he's just standing there, and I all,
Speaker 1: it seemed like I could see him computing all those
Speaker 1: different picks and like wooderdy lock up in this thing?
Speaker 1: What are like, did I cover the spread in this thing?
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, what is what happened to the
Speaker 1: Raiders in this game? And this I know di nap
Speaker 1: because they're so sloppy and the ending well kind of
Speaker 1: that'll be the focus and it should be the focus.
Speaker 1: But they're just a bad team. And so I'm fine
Speaker 1: with them fans left and right on the show. So
Speaker 1: that's the problem. Yeah, I'm alone on island. There's Shookie
Speaker 1: the Browns fans still, but I have to say, um,
Speaker 1: does do the Patriots not know that game is tied? There?
Speaker 1: That's what to me really was the most stunning part
Speaker 1: of it. And maybe there is coaching you can't say,
Speaker 1: oh this is Bill Belichick's fault, but yes, all this
Speaker 1: criticism around New England about maybe this coaching staff is
Speaker 1: in over its head and you've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: uncharacteristic mental errors all seasoned by this team. You saw
Speaker 1: a block punt in this game where the guy on
Speaker 1: the edge for the Raiders was untouched on the block punt,
Speaker 1: a huge bus by New England special teams. Um, this
Speaker 1: is just stuff that you can't ignore, some of this nick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you see, you know, Mac Jones getting frustrated week
Speaker 1: after week with the offense and the fact that they
Speaker 1: can't move the football consistently. It's very unlike them. It's
Speaker 1: it's unprofessional, it's it's just untidy, and it's not like
Speaker 1: the Patriots. But again, you're right, they had to know.
Speaker 1: They had to not know that the game was tie.
Speaker 1: This is j R. Smith in the NBA Finals all
Speaker 1: over again. You know when they come they did because
Speaker 1: they call the clock. They knew because they called the draw.
Speaker 1: They didn't call that that that's at least what the
Speaker 1: players are saying, unless they're really trying to cover for
Speaker 1: the coaches. They said, no, they just call the draw,
Speaker 1: go to overtime. Ramandre actually gets a big gain on
Speaker 1: it and just in the moment decides the lateral and
Speaker 1: those two players, Jacoby takes it to it. So sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't need that much crazy analysis of it. It
Speaker 1: was just like a beautifully insane play that two players
Speaker 1: are made mental errors on. But the rest of the game,
Speaker 1: where there's thirteen penalties by the Patriots in pre stop
Speaker 1: and mac Jones throws for a hundred and twelve yards,
Speaker 1: they had uh thirty one dropbacks for a hundred and
Speaker 1: twelve yards, Like that's on them, that's on them, right,
Speaker 1: and this is a game. It was this is like
Speaker 1: five games and one, but this is a game. The
Speaker 1: Raiders after that block punt and then they scored touched
Speaker 1: on right before the half, they are up seventeen three.
Speaker 1: There once once again up fourteen points, thirteen or more
Speaker 1: points at halftime, and immediately gag it all away and
Speaker 1: give up twenty one points in the fourth quarter. Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: this gets totally lost now. Shookie leads the team on
Speaker 1: a long drive, connecting on a touchdown pass that was
Speaker 1: very close and probably was uh an incomplete pass with
Speaker 1: a toe on the out of bounds line, but there
Speaker 1: wasn't enough evidence. They kicked the extra point, which sets
Speaker 1: up the madness that we saw. Do you want to
Speaker 1: hear from Josh McDaniels, who, by the way, on the
Speaker 1: top of everything else, this was him against the master,
Speaker 1: the pupil against master that I didn't see the midfield
Speaker 1: handshake on this one, but that had to be a
Speaker 1: little bit weird for Bill. Here's McDaniels after the game.
Speaker 1: Don't get tackled by the quarterback. I mean literally, I
Speaker 1: just was thinking I couldn't. I you know, it was
Speaker 1: obviously very um I don't know what the word would be,
Speaker 1: but I was. I was, you know, once once ramnre
Speaker 1: pitched the ball to Jacobe, you know, I figured we
Speaker 1: probably just tackle whoever had it, and then that would
Speaker 1: that would be it. We got over time. And then
Speaker 1: when he lateraled the ball, um, I had no idea.
Speaker 1: You know, it didn't seem like a lateral play to me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean when they handed the ball
Speaker 1: off to the back, So um, um, I thought, you know, okay,
Speaker 1: tackle him going over time. And then when I saw
Speaker 1: the ball over the air, and then I saw Chandler underneath,
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, oh my god, we might we might
Speaker 1: have a chance at this. And then when he caught it,
Speaker 1: I just I saw Mac was back there, and um
Speaker 1: just hoping that he could avoid, you know, whatever effort
Speaker 1: that Mac had to tackle him and then hopefully had
Speaker 1: enough choice left in his body to get to the
Speaker 1: end zone. So I watched the hug Dan and it
Speaker 1: it was. It was got to be the worst two
Speaker 1: seconds of Bill Belichick's week. Was waiting for Josh McDaniels
Speaker 1: and Mac Jones to stop their embrace. As Josh McDaniels
Speaker 1: is telling him like a lot about things like life.
Speaker 1: Offense is probably like stick with it, all the stuff
Speaker 1: they're embracing, and Belichick is just standing there next to
Speaker 1: him waiting for McDaniels to be done. Then they then
Speaker 1: he gives him a quick The last time they faced
Speaker 1: each other, they faced each other in two thousand and
Speaker 1: nine when McDaniels was the Broncos coach, and that was
Speaker 1: the team that started. It was two thousand and nine
Speaker 1: or ten. They started six and oh, and there were
Speaker 1: shots of after they beat the Patriots, Josh McDaniels running
Speaker 1: around the stadium pumping his fist and they caught for
Speaker 1: that and they just lost that the floor fell out,
Speaker 1: and he never How about this Raider season in general,
Speaker 1: I mean, this has got to be going down as
Speaker 1: one of the most bizarre. It might not end with anything.
Speaker 1: It probably won't. It's probably an eight and nine team
Speaker 1: or whatever it's gonna be. But almost every game is
Speaker 1: memorable and quite frankly bonkers. Memorable for their batteries and
Speaker 1: usually the fact that they blow. But I had a
Speaker 1: few go the other way now in the last month. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: their offense. They can't get to Davante Adams in the
Speaker 1: second half. That's consistently a problem for them. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been a bonkers season. You know, at one point
Speaker 1: this season I was saying they're probably like the best
Speaker 1: one in four, one in five team, whatever they were
Speaker 1: in the history of football, that I couldn't get the
Speaker 1: job done. But I had way more talent than their
Speaker 1: record indicated. But now at this point they are six
Speaker 1: and eight teen because they make so many mistakes. It's
Speaker 1: just that this time around it paid off for them.
Speaker 1: And you know, it was not a not a great
Speaker 1: Sunday for Zeusser and got knocked out of my fantasy playoffs.
Speaker 1: That's not pleasant either. But then I remembered after this,
Speaker 1: right was we're coming to the studio. Oh, Scott Zolak
Speaker 1: had to react on live radio, so let's check in
Speaker 1: the sentient power raide bottle with his partner Bob Sochi.
Speaker 1: I believe reacting to and insane play by the Patriots.
Speaker 1: Jones will give it to Steven Sandy started your body
Speaker 1: runs it up the middle hit by Chandler Jones slips
Speaker 1: they had acrost THET five for the stuff farm off
Speaker 1: a tackle the funy. He lost the football and jacled
Speaker 1: me Byrus picks it up he circles back and he
Speaker 1: throws it across the field. Just pick up the ruts
Speaker 1: to the town to the Aude touchdown writers night. This
Speaker 1: might be one of the dumbest teams I've ever seen
Speaker 1: seen and infectory Las Vegas. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: This is a heads roll type freaking play right here.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, never thought he was going to sign
Speaker 1: up for Negative Times. Oh did he just insinuate Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick should be fired? No, I think it's definitely the
Speaker 1: lieutenants under Bill Belichick. But I've seen enough little reports
Speaker 1: popping up that there will be pressure on Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: to change those lieutenants. And you can be sure Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick is aware who is putting out these little bubbles,
Speaker 1: because it's the only people person above him, or people
Speaker 1: above him is I thought Bob Soci had a great
Speaker 1: call professional uh and that was I think lack Jack
Speaker 1: the Musburger would have been great on the call to
Speaker 1: But Harwood's came in hard with a Honeker hit and
Speaker 1: that you know, that's memorable as well. It's all beautiful,
Speaker 1: And I just want to say, Nick, no more calling
Speaker 1: this uncharacteristic of the Patriots. It's actually been three years.
Speaker 1: This is the Patriots, post Brady. I just mean they're
Speaker 1: heavily penalized. Uh, and they're in They're inefficient and make
Speaker 1: big mistakes. Like they've been one of the most heavily
Speaker 1: penalized teams a couple of years running. Like this is
Speaker 1: who they are. It's not penalty on fourth on fourth
Speaker 1: and goal, how about yeah, you can't get the Raiders
Speaker 1: had given up thirty two straight first and goal touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The Patriots have a second and goal at the one,
Speaker 1: and they choose to throw a couple of passes and
Speaker 1: they don't get it open. The third quarter. They had
Speaker 1: they had shut down the Raiders for most of the
Speaker 1: second half, and then things got like we're openly rooting
Speaker 1: for them to not make the playoffs, not because they're
Speaker 1: the Patriots, because they're an isore. Some people for both reasons. Sure,
Speaker 1: but I'm I like, I'm comfortable with the latter. Camp shook.
Speaker 1: You wanna hang around for another game here? Absolutely, let's
Speaker 1: to a game that did make it to overtime, and
Speaker 1: I think everybody was kind of surprised it did. Mahomes
Speaker 1: panting off, the McKinnon trying to dart and left field
Speaker 1: clock touchdown chance City terrific run by Jerick McKinnon to
Speaker 1: win the game and overtime and the kids on City
Speaker 1: Chas have won the a f C West for a
Speaker 1: seventh consecutive year, seven years in a row. Mitch Holt
Speaker 1: us with a call w d A F Jack McKinnon,
Speaker 1: he is a player. Twenty six yard touchdown runner o
Speaker 1: T Chiefs get three touch on from Patrick Mahomes over
Speaker 1: a game Texans team which is fighting hard for Lovey
Speaker 1: Smith down the stretch here. Um, Mark, I'll start with
Speaker 1: you on this one. Why was this game and overtime
Speaker 1: contest at all? Like? How how did this happen today?
Speaker 1: Because I think everybody expected this to be a total
Speaker 1: blast job by Andy Reid Um summed it up well.
Speaker 1: He said it was a weird game, and it was.
Speaker 1: I think it was just an example of the Chiefs
Speaker 1: being a little bit off, and they've been a little
Speaker 1: bit off on offense, um for stretches and then when
Speaker 1: you throw in mistakes you get a game like this.
Speaker 1: This wasn't the Texans really stretching their legs here and
Speaker 1: showing us that they're turning into something more powerful. It
Speaker 1: was that you got an Isaiah Pacheco fumble at the
Speaker 1: Kansas City seventeen that set up a Davis Mills touchdown
Speaker 1: helped them go up fourteen nothing. There was a touchdown
Speaker 1: drive before the half, but Harrison Bucker missed the p
Speaker 1: A T So that's fourteen thirteen going into half for
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Juju Smith Schuster at a big fumble that
Speaker 1: led to another Texans touchdown to put them up sixteen,
Speaker 1: and then Harrison Bucker, who we've been so used to
Speaker 1: seeing reliably nailing kicks them all over the place, missed
Speaker 1: the fifty one yard field goal was seconds to go
Speaker 1: that put it into overtime. Nick, But you know, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs also had Patrick Mahomes completing nineteen strain passes at
Speaker 1: one point. It's like when they're bad, their version of
Speaker 1: bad is better than anyone else's version of bad. It
Speaker 1: made a close, but were you ever really in doubt
Speaker 1: that they were going to take this thing? I was
Speaker 1: surprised I got the overtime. I wasn't entirely surprised that
Speaker 1: Bucker missed that kick. He's just he's another guy who's
Speaker 1: just kind of been off this year in general. Uh,
Speaker 1: you kind of saw it with the p A t
Speaker 1: that he missed as well, like you mentioned, But you
Speaker 1: know that's it's still the Chiefs. They still moved to football,
Speaker 1: and I like that they're actually getting their ground game
Speaker 1: kind of going a little bit with Pacheco and then
Speaker 1: uh Jerk McKinney making a difference in the ground and
Speaker 1: through the air. Uh. It's two straight weeks where those
Speaker 1: two have combined for over a hundred twenty yards of
Speaker 1: actually it was close to two hundred yards offense the
Speaker 1: last two weeks including today, So that party is encouraging.
Speaker 1: But you're right, it's they're not at their full form yet.
Speaker 1: They're not hitting their stride entirely right now, which is
Speaker 1: fine because you still won the f C West and
Speaker 1: you still win this game. It's just that for two
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, they've taken you know, teams that
Speaker 1: they should be beating. They they've had them take them
Speaker 1: almost to the wire in each game, had to really
Speaker 1: earn them at the end. And that's just a little concerning.
Speaker 1: You don't any overtime games where it's two yards to
Speaker 1: two nineteen. Well, the Texans had the Texans African points
Speaker 1: six yards per place. That wasn't a Houston thing as
Speaker 1: much as there were special teams. But again, yeah, they
Speaker 1: got the ball at the seventeen. They got the ball
Speaker 1: deep in Chiefs territory on the second touchdown. To your
Speaker 1: point on Jared McKinnon, a little fantasy nug He has
Speaker 1: thirty plus PPR points and two straight games. The only
Speaker 1: two running backs to do that all year have been
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs and Austin Ekeler. So McKinnon is fitting really
Speaker 1: well corner from the corner. But Jako is an interesting
Speaker 1: part for this offense too. I think he runs the
Speaker 1: ball differently than an he Chiefs back we've seen in
Speaker 1: a while. Can I tell you the Chiefs are eleven
Speaker 1: and three. They're obviously in great position as they jostle
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo for that top seed. I don't put
Speaker 1: too much into you know, they were a little sluggish
Speaker 1: against the Rams a few weeks back, um the Broncos.
Speaker 1: That game is closer than it should have been. This
Speaker 1: this Texans game, now, this feels like a team that's
Speaker 1: been doing this for so long now that they're just
Speaker 1: grinding through the rest of the schedule. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: their thirteen wins or so, maybe fourteen wins and then
Speaker 1: they're gonna be ready to cook when it matters in
Speaker 1: a big spot in January. So you just they're they're
Speaker 1: checking boxes and trying to say hell. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of Buffalo because they're slump. They never lost during their slump.
Speaker 1: SAME's all right, Chookie, thank you very much, my friend,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, well, if we don't see you
Speaker 1: before the holidays, Merry Christmas. Thanks to you guys as well,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me as always, Happy holidays and start
Speaker 1: celebrating Hanukah as I just found out started today that
Speaker 1: your family that had got to be a fun Christmas.
Speaker 1: He's got like seventeen cousins and siblings and got a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of Miller light being ingested that
Speaker 1: very beefy crowd. Funny you know my you know, my
Speaker 1: my favorite there and thank you a lot of bogs light.
Speaker 1: All right, see you l everybody. All right, let's keep
Speaker 1: rolling a lot to get to let's head across the
Speaker 1: sidewalk to Sophie Stadium, where the Chargers were looking to
Speaker 1: solidify their uh wild card spot and the Titans were
Speaker 1: looking at get things calmed down. Were learned they didn't
Speaker 1: lock up this will be a three yard kick from
Speaker 1: the right. Hash kick is up and it is cool boys,
Speaker 1: Crack my money. Cameron Ticker puts the Bolts up three
Speaker 1: with four seconds to go. What a tribe. Money's voice
Speaker 1: is never cracked. So on the day where all the
Speaker 1: announcers are amped up and frying their vocal cords with
Speaker 1: screams from the booth, Money the great professional, cannot be
Speaker 1: undone Money with Jeremiah in there somewhere, k Y s R.
Speaker 1: On the call, Let's get some let's get some Kicker
Speaker 1: club music in here for Dick or the Kicker Ticker
Speaker 1: the kicker for a team. The Chargers, who have long
Speaker 1: struggled to have any type of you know, trust and
Speaker 1: the guy that, as we all know and why they're
Speaker 1: celebrated on this podcast, have such a huge role in
Speaker 1: getting teams to playoffs and separate seven and nine from
Speaker 1: nine and sevens or nine and eights from eight and nins. Dicker,
Speaker 1: He's been doing it all year long, and he did
Speaker 1: it again there um at the gun, allowing the Charges
Speaker 1: to move past the Titans. Uh a seventeen fourteen win
Speaker 1: those Charges in our eight and six and mark the
Speaker 1: Titans keep losing now seven and seven and only a
Speaker 1: game up on the Jacks. I feel for them in
Speaker 1: this one because you have Ryan Tannehill in an offense
Speaker 1: that's struggling all game on third down. They were just
Speaker 1: they've been awful on third down all year, and it
Speaker 1: came down to a last stand for Ryan tanne who
Speaker 1: was playing on a messed up ankle. He left the
Speaker 1: game for a while early, had to go have it
Speaker 1: heavily taped, and just refused to come out like he's
Speaker 1: just the we just get this every week. There's some
Speaker 1: example of why I think he's the toughest quarterback in
Speaker 1: the NFC. Other people have other standards that are higher
Speaker 1: than him. That's who he is. He made a couple
Speaker 1: of Keith rows when they were down fourteen to seven
Speaker 1: with less than three minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Chicka kN Quo Austin who for Derrick Henry had a
Speaker 1: big run and then Henry got stuffed and then Tanny
Speaker 1: barreled in for the tie and touchdown, and you thought,
Speaker 1: what the Tennessee has worked their way out of this
Speaker 1: dark corner they're in. But they left justin Herbert lead.
Speaker 1: They could have, I mean, they didn't but they left
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert too much time and he got to work.
Speaker 1: It was the Herbert from last week on this last drive,
Speaker 1: a sixteen yard of to Mike Williams, a six yard
Speaker 1: of to Gerald Everett, and an insane on the move
Speaker 1: throw to Mike Williams. Who is Greg I know you
Speaker 1: mentioned this on the Thursday show that he's just doing
Speaker 1: things down the field that other wide receivers are not,
Speaker 1: and we used to see it in flashes. He's now
Speaker 1: is doing it regularly. He that went to the Tennessee twenty.
Speaker 1: They spiked the ball, then they got a weird delay
Speaker 1: of game. And this is why this was happening, right
Speaker 1: when that Raiders thing was happening. And down in our
Speaker 1: newsroom everyone's on a I'm on tape delay on game
Speaker 1: pass at my desk and everyone's ahead, and I thought,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, Dickers lining up for this after the
Speaker 1: delay of game kick. He must have missed this thing.
Speaker 1: People are going crazy. Then I see the Chandler Jones.
Speaker 1: I say, Dicker hitting the kick and the game is over.
Speaker 1: But it really kills me, and we should bring in
Speaker 1: Grave to Gret kills me for the Titans because their
Speaker 1: defense today. I thought played one of the best games
Speaker 1: they have played all year. Joshua calou DeAndre like what
Speaker 1: he did when he blew up DeAndre Carter on a
Speaker 1: big run. Guys like DeMarcus Walker, Roger McCrary who had
Speaker 1: a tipped interception leaping out of bounds to clue which
Speaker 1: was interception to say, it absolutely was. It was like
Speaker 1: an orchestrated volleyball play, and you just thought, like cricket play.
Speaker 1: I thought the Titans were just gonna find a way
Speaker 1: to do this. So I can't imagine what it was
Speaker 1: like for you to be in the stadium, which was
Speaker 1: very loud today. I'll give the charge wanted some validation
Speaker 1: after jumping on the Titans bandwagon. This was gonna be time. Well,
Speaker 1: I feel bad for their Justin did go across the
Speaker 1: sidewalk and attended this game, and uh, he's a pro
Speaker 1: because he's back in the studio. Now. I got Robert
Speaker 1: Woods glove. How can you believe that? Wait, you got
Speaker 1: your go by the tunnel guy and I had to
Speaker 1: leave the game at at four o'clock, three minutes left
Speaker 1: in the game before the Titans completed their comeback. Randy
Speaker 1: Chavez was also in the stadium randomly with tickets by
Speaker 1: the tunnel, and he got this and gave it to me.
Speaker 1: So like Raber Woods hasn't really needed those gloves this year,
Speaker 1: So I I we were kind of joking that they're
Speaker 1: a little small. Actually I didn't not give it a whiff,
Speaker 1: and I'm not really curious. Um, I think there was
Speaker 1: a turning point in this game. Titans missed a fifty
Speaker 1: one yard field goal, which, like you were just saying, Dan,
Speaker 1: the reason we played it for Cameron Dicker here by
Speaker 1: the way, hook him, uh, is that there's the difference
Speaker 1: between a seven and nine or nine and seven team
Speaker 1: like Randy Bullock has missed the potential game winning field
Speaker 1: goal early in the year for the Titans, that's could
Speaker 1: be a huge win when it comes down to the standings.
Speaker 1: And then a fifty one yard or which like fifty
Speaker 1: one is not automatic, but there are some teams who
Speaker 1: have kickers where fifty one yards is automatic, and the
Speaker 1: Titans certainly zero in Sofi. Well, exactly, I mean he
Speaker 1: should be able to hit a fifty one. I mean
Speaker 1: NFL kickers these days, fifty yards is like I hit
Speaker 1: a thirty yard field goal at Sofi stadium with the
Speaker 1: holiday party party, maybe you should kick for the The
Speaker 1: Titans end up in their first and ten at the
Speaker 1: at the Chargers twenty five yard line, and they end
Speaker 1: up kicking a fifty one yard field goal because they
Speaker 1: lose eight yards from there and get a fourth and
Speaker 1: eighteen after a second and sixteen following a Tannehill sack.
Speaker 1: They run the ball second in sixteen for seven yards.
Speaker 1: You're a third and nine back to the twenty four
Speaker 1: yard line. I'm thinking, just be safe, run the ball
Speaker 1: and kick a manageable field goal. Titans call another pass play,
Speaker 1: give up another sack. Two sacks and three plays pushes
Speaker 1: them back, makes it a fifty one your field goal.
Speaker 1: If they just stay conservative there, you have a chance.
Speaker 1: I know. That's all part of what they are, which
Speaker 1: is a terrible offensive line. Not many offensive lines have
Speaker 1: made the Chargers pass rush look fearsome this year, and
Speaker 1: it comes down at the end. I think to like,
Speaker 1: the Chargers have Justin Herbert who can make that throw
Speaker 1: at the end and the tight and almost every team
Speaker 1: in the league doesn't. And going into these last two weeks,
Speaker 1: we were talking about Sean Payton's gonna take this Charger's job.
Speaker 1: And I said these two weeks to decide Brandon Staley's career.
Speaker 1: Here Dolphins Titans back to back, because the schedule gets easier.
Speaker 1: Now he ends up finding a way to win them
Speaker 1: both good defense, timely Herbert plays, and now they have
Speaker 1: like according to the projections most out there, the playoff
Speaker 1: projections like a seventy plus percent chance because they're the
Speaker 1: six seed at eight and six and their schedules easy.
Speaker 1: I would also say the Titans get in their own
Speaker 1: way because I was counting there. They are the worst
Speaker 1: third down team in the league. They had the most
Speaker 1: three and ounce they were one and for nine today.
Speaker 1: I believe they had multiple third and two scenarios where
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is not even on the field. I get that,
Speaker 1: we know it's gonna go to Derrick Henry if he is,
Speaker 1: but you're putting Tannehill in a situation where he's got
Speaker 1: a complete throws and he had a bunch of wayward
Speaker 1: scenarios on third down. He's trying to target Robert will
Speaker 1: it's on a quick out where um Asante Samuel Jr.
Speaker 1: All Over him. It's not open. He's trying to throw
Speaker 1: the chicken Quanto on the sideline, Kyle van Noy in coverage,
Speaker 1: doing a great job. It's not open. He's like, I
Speaker 1: think the Titans offense is one of the worst in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I kind of feel like Greg feels about
Speaker 1: the Patriots right now, where I'm just like, this Titans
Speaker 1: team doesn't deserve to make the play. It's not Tannehill's.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars are playing right now, just so much better football.
Speaker 1: The Jags, the Chargers, and I'll throw the Jets in
Speaker 1: that make I'm putting the Dolphins into it, like that
Speaker 1: makes the best uh playoffs. Like so if we're shuffling
Speaker 1: in the Chargers and the Jags for the Titans and
Speaker 1: and let's say the Patriots, like that's just mooring. It's more,
Speaker 1: it's more fun. The Titans are one of the most
Speaker 1: boring teams to watch, and then their offense is terrible.
Speaker 1: And it's happened so quickly, Um, this this flip that's
Speaker 1: happened in the a FC South that it no longer
Speaker 1: feels stunning. If the Jaguars take this thing. They do
Speaker 1: have the Texans next week, but it's like the way
Speaker 1: the Texans are playing, they're gonna win that game out
Speaker 1: of trouble, Buddy, it really did. I mean it did
Speaker 1: turn on a dime the moment Mark jumped off the
Speaker 1: band Yeah, but I've I've I've now been thrown off
Speaker 1: the band wagon, so you can't it was nice to blame.
Speaker 1: The team actually has issues, and you can't just blame
Speaker 1: some guy in Los Angeles talking about football. Let's play Mark,
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we'll continue on. All right,
Speaker 1: I'd like to avoid this, but we can't um the
Speaker 1: NFC South. We gotta dig into it. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the team that everybody thought was gonna cruise to the title,
Speaker 1: and today it looked like they might have gotten themselves
Speaker 1: figured out. But guess what, they still stink. Bucks Bengals.
Speaker 1: Let's go Chase out to the left, Burrow looking his
Speaker 1: throw by Chase heats for the end zone touchdown Bengals
Speaker 1: Choe Burrow, where this third touchdown pass of the second
Speaker 1: half unbelievable. Burrow would add a fourth touch down pass
Speaker 1: later in the game, the final touches in a thirty
Speaker 1: four win over the Bucks for the Bengals, a game
Speaker 1: gentleman that had Tampa Bay up seventeen nothing with about
Speaker 1: minutes of play in the second quarter. Uh Bengals kick
Speaker 1: a field goal and then scored thirty one points in
Speaker 1: the second half as they continued there. Uh so, just
Speaker 1: cruise through this section of their schedule, Greggy, the Bengals
Speaker 1: flexing their muscles, now up to ten and four. I
Speaker 1: felt anything like a cruise, though. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with this game. It was so strange that
Speaker 1: they were down seventeen nothing, dead in the water late
Speaker 1: in the second half, hadn't moved the ball at all.
Speaker 1: It was clearly the best half of football the Bucks
Speaker 1: had played overall all season. I would say on both
Speaker 1: sides of the ball, they were fantastic. Brady was really sharp.
Speaker 1: Cincinnati gets three before halftime, but you don't think that's
Speaker 1: big a deal. And then it just becomes a turnover fest.
Speaker 1: Four straight possessions, one on a fake punt where Geo
Speaker 1: Bernard didn't appear to know the play called would have
Speaker 1: gotten in the yard, and they snap it right to
Speaker 1: his helmet, so that gives the Bengals the ball in
Speaker 1: field goal position, but but they don't get anything again.
Speaker 1: The Bucks like stand up, and it's still seventeen six
Speaker 1: at that point, and then the next four possessions, bad
Speaker 1: interception by Brady, touchdown for the Bengals, fumble. I believe
Speaker 1: that one was by Brady. The pressure got there quickly,
Speaker 1: but I think Brady will be mad at himself for
Speaker 1: fumbling that off or either not getting the ball quick
Speaker 1: right of the ball quickly and throwing it away on
Speaker 1: third down, or not securing it. Obviously, his offensive line
Speaker 1: was not playing well. He didn't have Tristan Works in
Speaker 1: this game, and Donovan smith uh then left later in
Speaker 1: the game. They fumble again the next possession, and then
Speaker 1: Brady throws another interception on a pass that where it
Speaker 1: hit him in the arm the next position, So all
Speaker 1: four the Bengals have the ball in Buck's territory to
Speaker 1: start their possession, and they clean up with three touchdowns
Speaker 1: in a field goal, and suddenly the game was over.
Speaker 1: And at no point did it feel like hey, like
Speaker 1: the Bengals have solved everything offensively, but it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: They have something special about them as a team that
Speaker 1: when they fall down, they make the big plays, and
Speaker 1: the guys like Trey Flowers and Logan Wilson are making
Speaker 1: huge plays there without their top two defensive ends. Because
Speaker 1: Sam Harberd left and Trey Hendrickson was already out, and
Speaker 1: it's like it doesn't matter. Someone steps up for this team.
Speaker 1: That's a sign of an awesome team. I thought they
Speaker 1: found another way to win, and like, sure they the
Speaker 1: Brady fumble gave them the ball at the Tampa Bay thirteen.
Speaker 1: They got at the thirty nine when for Net fumbled.
Speaker 1: But I thought there was this other big play, Dann.
Speaker 1: We were watching this when Burrow, um, you know, weaving
Speaker 1: backwards on a fourth down play and get sacked for
Speaker 1: a twenty seven yard loss, a very Unburrow like operation
Speaker 1: right there. But there's the play is called back by
Speaker 1: holding and seconds later he's hitting Tee Higgins for a
Speaker 1: five yard touchdown and they've scored and a two point
Speaker 1: conversion of Tyler board and they scored twenty un answered points,
Speaker 1: and at that point it's just, oh wait. The Bucks
Speaker 1: were great for this half, and it was a very
Speaker 1: unusual thing to watch because they've been such a mess
Speaker 1: in such a tough watch um, but then they shifted
Speaker 1: back into who they were, and I think that's who
Speaker 1: who the second half is who the Bucks are for
Speaker 1: most of the season. And I think I tweeted about it,
Speaker 1: like Tony Romo, I think I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: because he kind of there. He's a Tom Brady, he's
Speaker 1: a contemporary when he was a player. He's obviously in
Speaker 1: the respect you obviously have for a man like Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But you know you could tell like Romo wants Brady
Speaker 1: and the Bucks to figure things out, and in that
Speaker 1: first half, Tony was just like go over his heels,
Speaker 1: like with the praise of the Bucks that this is
Speaker 1: the best they've looked, and you know he was right. Though.
Speaker 1: That's why this is I think is disappointing as any
Speaker 1: loss all season there has been for the Bucks, because
Speaker 1: you get to this point of the season where you're
Speaker 1: six and seven and you're playing the defending a f
Speaker 1: C champions and you're kicking their butts, and it's late
Speaker 1: in the second quarter, and you're thinking to yourself as
Speaker 1: you go to that locker room, even after you give
Speaker 1: up the last field goal, all right, like everything is
Speaker 1: still in front of us. We can win this bad
Speaker 1: division and if we get our personnel right, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, Chris Godwin's looking better and Mike Evans
Speaker 1: is on the same page. With Brady, maybe we can
Speaker 1: make a season of it. I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: way that this team can wake up tomorrow morning and
Speaker 1: think there are anything else than just Also, isn't it
Speaker 1: just flipped from their other games where their their horrid
Speaker 1: for three quarters? Then Tom Brady has the big point
Speaker 1: for one quarter? Just was it happened early? But this
Speaker 1: is a team that rarely plays sixty minutes football. To
Speaker 1: give you two has a lot to do with the coaching.
Speaker 1: This one felt flukey just because so many turnovers in
Speaker 1: a row. But Bolls feels how you feel. Dan After
Speaker 1: the game, he said, we gotta keep fighting. We understand
Speaker 1: what we're doing is not good enough. By fart's not
Speaker 1: even close. We've got three games left to try to
Speaker 1: save our season. When was the last time you heard
Speaker 1: of a team who's in sole possession of first place
Speaker 1: with three games left of the season saying we've got
Speaker 1: three games left season? How many times in recent history
Speaker 1: is a team in six and eight and they're in
Speaker 1: sole possession. They're kind of an uncharted territory. But I
Speaker 1: don't think that sounds like a team that doesn't believe
Speaker 1: and it's off and they shouldn't because it's not very good,
Speaker 1: and we keep on thinking they could be good, but
Speaker 1: they've given us so much evidence now for three months.
Speaker 1: The Titans right and it was a mature and like
Speaker 1: resourceful game by the Bengals, although I think they'll be
Speaker 1: a little concerned the average three point yards three point
Speaker 1: eight yards for play on the day. They never got
Speaker 1: the ground game going. They couldn't find it. They couldn't
Speaker 1: buy an explosive play, uh from Borough. It was. It
Speaker 1: was a strange, strange game, but there they've learned, like
Speaker 1: how to win in any situation, so gotta have it Sunday.
Speaker 1: The Bucks didn't have to have it. They were gonna
Speaker 1: be in the first place no matter what, even if
Speaker 1: they lost. Who locked it? I locked it, and so
Speaker 1: did the West Brothers, sweating it out a little bit earlier. Actually, wait, now,
Speaker 1: I should have played that once. I forgot Mark was
Speaker 1: thinking about changing his lock, but he's stuck with the Niners.
Speaker 1: It was just so good, all right. Let's move to
Speaker 1: another NFC South matchup. A gotta have a game for
Speaker 1: the Falcons with their new quarterback Desmond Rider and the Saints,
Speaker 1: who just needed a win to get into the well,
Speaker 1: not into the hunt. They don't do that for the
Speaker 1: division race, but in this division nothing makes sense. And
Speaker 1: I said to that a low snap looks to throw,
Speaker 1: just throw complete across the mental the Saints haven he
Speaker 1: was hit five, Justin Evans was complete to Drake London
Speaker 1: and Evans hit and and if they say that that's
Speaker 1: not a complete I'm jumping out of this book. You
Speaker 1: never know by the way they said it was complete.
Speaker 1: So my cost did not jump out of the box
Speaker 1: for w w L. Because Justin Evans stripped Drake London.
Speaker 1: It was the defining play in aen win for the
Speaker 1: Saints over the Falcons, who did not get a boost.
Speaker 1: It doesn't appear so from Desmond Rider in his first stought.
Speaker 1: So that as bad as the Saints have been this year,
Speaker 1: they're five and nine and still have a pulse in
Speaker 1: this division and the Falcons dropped to five and nine,
Speaker 1: and they've had many chances to try to stake their
Speaker 1: claim to this division. But just another l I I
Speaker 1: hate to say, after beating the drum for Desmond Ritter
Speaker 1: for so long that my biggest takeaway from this game
Speaker 1: is the Falcons would probably win if Marcus Mario. That
Speaker 1: is a damning indictment of any quarterback. I mean just
Speaker 1: because Ritter played, you know what, one of the bottom
Speaker 1: ten games by a quarterback, I would say in the
Speaker 1: league this year. Maybe now we know why the head
Speaker 1: coach did not want to play. And you've seen this guy,
Speaker 1: I've seen him. I've always wondered about that because you
Speaker 1: would think Mariotta would have been taken out of the
Speaker 1: lineup before this. But it was like, you guys don't
Speaker 1: understand what's going on in practice. Maybe Mariotto was so mad,
Speaker 1: I'm getting back. I don't know. Ritter showed something certainly
Speaker 1: in college and in the preseason, but he was confused.
Speaker 1: He end up thirteen twenty six for ninety seven yards,
Speaker 1: and that was after attacking on a couple throws at
Speaker 1: the end. Uh, you just couldn't shoot straight. Basically, any
Speaker 1: time they dropped back to pass felt like they were
Speaker 1: doing the Saints a huge favor. The Falcons were able
Speaker 1: to run the ball, including Ritter who had six for
Speaker 1: thirty eight. They had two thirty one on the ground.
Speaker 1: Tyler algae Year was out there looking like Peyton Helens.
Speaker 1: We gotta hear from this committee because this is Mark
Speaker 1: skuy was Marks Guy. It's been six to eight weeks.
Speaker 1: It's funny you should say, because I did get a
Speaker 1: voicemail during work today. Okay, hello, my name is excuse
Speaker 1: me Ted Becker. I am calling from the My Guy Committee.
Speaker 1: I am attempting to reach one Mark Stephen Sessler about
Speaker 1: running back for the Atlanta Falcons. Tyler Al the guy
Speaker 1: guy or Tyler al guyor Tyler Al. I'm sorry, I've
Speaker 1: never I've never pronounced this name, Tyler al Algae yere Algae.
Speaker 1: He is officially, uh, your guy. Like to apologize that
Speaker 1: this request was put in some time ago and we've
Speaker 1: just been backed up. We've had a lot of absences lately, uh,
Speaker 1: people coming into the office given everybody the flu just crazy.
Speaker 1: I myself had it three times in the last two months,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I feel a tickle on the back
Speaker 1: of my throat already. So anyway, Tyler al Gayer is
Speaker 1: your your guy now, Mr Steven Sessler, and UH feel
Speaker 1: free to use that title for that player, uh in conversation,
Speaker 1: either in media or out of media, UM, but not
Speaker 1: in print. Uh, that was not approved. I think you
Speaker 1: need to you need to refile for that. Unfortunately, there's
Speaker 1: a time limit on that, and there's a tickle on
Speaker 1: the back of my throat. Oh god, what a vitory
Speaker 1: not expecting that again, this happens almost every episode. There's
Speaker 1: a point in every episode. You need to watch the
Speaker 1: YouTube version of this show wherever you get this program,
Speaker 1: because for the first twenty seconds of Ted Becker's call,
Speaker 1: Mark's face was as tight and angry as you can imagine,
Speaker 1: because he thought that Charlie Brown moment was coming. But no, Mark,
Speaker 1: you got your guy. Well I I you know, I
Speaker 1: held out a long time. I was prepared to critique
Speaker 1: that UM corporate office for basically the guy on the phone,
Speaker 1: Ted Schneeblely or whatever his name was, Ted Becker and
Speaker 1: his in his entire presentation. But um, it's worked out well.
Speaker 1: Tyler l Gear seventeen carries a hundred and thirty nine
Speaker 1: yards a touchdown, eight point two yards for cattle to
Speaker 1: everything was after contact. He was running. He leads all
Speaker 1: rookies with rushing yards overexpected. He is a special player.
Speaker 1: May he is my guy. We haven't mentioned the yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Saints are now one game back. You do you
Speaker 1: do think about that come back? The bucks at on
Speaker 1: Monday Night football, and think how the Saints would be
Speaker 1: in first place sole possession if not, they looked like
Speaker 1: a first place team. No they don't. They put they
Speaker 1: got a fourteen it so bad. They got a more
Speaker 1: quickly and then did what they could almost blow. If
Speaker 1: you're a Saints fan, though, I think you're at least happy.
Speaker 1: Juwan Johnson is one of the most improved players I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life. Was a wide receiver, now
Speaker 1: now a tight end prohijia heat. Every time he touches
Speaker 1: the ball it's a sixty plus yard touchdown. And Chris
Speaker 1: Olavy another nice smooth game. So at least they have
Speaker 1: some fun offensive pieces. That's about it for this game.
Speaker 1: All right, did we cover all the teams the NFC South?
Speaker 1: I don't think. Now we've got one more. I do
Speaker 1: want to say, though, this is the first time since
Speaker 1: the first ever game between Saints and Falcons that the
Speaker 1: Saints now owed the all time lead in this rivalry
Speaker 1: fifty four to fifty three. What a day you are
Speaker 1: the on the beat of this rivalry. That is good
Speaker 1: to know. Thank you, Greg. Yes, there's one more team
Speaker 1: in the division, another team booting an opportunity to make
Speaker 1: a play and and and get to January relevance. It
Speaker 1: was the Carolina Panthers, well welcoming the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's
Speaker 1: see what does he does. He goes over the top,
Speaker 1: touchdown Mitch Drobinsky and for Mitch his second of the
Speaker 1: year rushing. That's the way to go, Mitch Drobinsky, following
Speaker 1: your own hands and then pound it in, get it
Speaker 1: across that goal line. That's a great job of leading
Speaker 1: the way. That reminds me of the who was the
Speaker 1: character in the office, the woman who eventually married Michael Scotch.
Speaker 1: He took over for Toby and hr and Holly, and
Speaker 1: Holly thought someone had had uh wrongly told her that
Speaker 1: Kevin Malone had intellectual disability and um, so she was
Speaker 1: being really nice to him every time, but it was
Speaker 1: Kevin doesn't have any issues like that, and he um.
Speaker 1: It just led to a little comic like a true
Speaker 1: true Mr disconnect there. And that's the way it sounds
Speaker 1: like these announces like great job, Mitch, I'm really proud
Speaker 1: of you there, buddy, getting over that line. But Mitch Drobinsky,
Speaker 1: you know, he went into this game knowing full well
Speaker 1: that maybe a lot of people in his locker room
Speaker 1: didn't want him on the field. Everybody is really into
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph in Pittsburgh for whatever reason, and there was
Speaker 1: some heat about him playing in this game with Kenny
Speaker 1: pick it out with the concussion. But Robinsky played um
Speaker 1: and he played pretty well for Mitch Drabinsky, including that.
Speaker 1: The reason I chose that place specifically for the Steelers
Speaker 1: over the Panthers was that was the final play of
Speaker 1: a twenty one yard excuse me, twenty one play, nine
Speaker 1: one yard touchdown drive by the Steelers to start the
Speaker 1: third quarter. That shoot up about twelve minutes of the clock. Uh.
Speaker 1: You don't see too many of those, and uh it
Speaker 1: kind of for a game that Pittsburgh really controlled for
Speaker 1: most of the game, this was the game that it
Speaker 1: was most uh typified what we saw uh down in Charlotte,
Speaker 1: where Caroline Panthers had some momentum and you thought they
Speaker 1: had a chance really to make a move and find
Speaker 1: their way to first place in this bad division. But
Speaker 1: the Steelers, as they've been doing for the most part
Speaker 1: now for you know, the last five or six weeks,
Speaker 1: they're showing that they're a team that can play and
Speaker 1: they can they can win games, and they might get
Speaker 1: keep that five hundred tree going for Mike Thilin. Their
Speaker 1: offense has improved bit by bit consistently for five or
Speaker 1: six weeks. And you know, I think if you look
Speaker 1: at one of the major discredit to this team early
Speaker 1: on was the offensive line, and they've been better and
Speaker 1: they there. Pat Meyer, the offensive line coach, is someone
Speaker 1: that like was on the hot seat I think heading
Speaker 1: into the season, and everyone's improved a little bit, and
Speaker 1: I mean it didn't fall off entirely with Trabisky. I
Speaker 1: have to ask you one little question on this game.
Speaker 1: Though I read that this is maybe one of my
Speaker 1: favorite things. I'm just gonna read what I read. Steelers
Speaker 1: linebacker Marcus Allen just made it incomprehensible error, getting called
Speaker 1: for unsportsmanlike conduct for going into the Panthers huddle on
Speaker 1: their sideline one while Carolina faced four and seven. What
Speaker 1: was what was this? I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 1: It was a time out was called before this play,
Speaker 1: and you just see him and he had the replay. Uh,
Speaker 1: he wanders over to the far sideline and just inserts
Speaker 1: himself into the huddle of the Panthers and his talking
Speaker 1: ish and it's an automatic first down. They they scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown after that, and I was thinking, the Steelers
Speaker 1: lose this game, that's like an all time and they
Speaker 1: had another I'm trying to think who the other one
Speaker 1: was on They had another unsportsmanlike conduct foul earlier in
Speaker 1: that game, and I was just thinking to myself, like,
Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin is gonna be cracking some skulls if they
Speaker 1: end up losing this game. But they didn't. And um,
Speaker 1: on the on the Panthers side, Um, Sam Donald was
Speaker 1: a very Donald esque performance. He's done well in terms
Speaker 1: of protecting the football for the most part, although he
Speaker 1: did have a fumble in this game. Uh, but uh,
Speaker 1: the offense was a little bit just stagnant in general. Uh.
Speaker 1: They struggle to score points here and that's going to continue.
Speaker 1: You need the defense to be great, and they weren't
Speaker 1: great in this game. And the part of the reason
Speaker 1: was Deante Johnson absolutely killed the Carolina secondary in this
Speaker 1: game with so many big catches, including big throws down
Speaker 1: near the end of Give Travisky credit for that as well. Well.
Speaker 1: He was the guy who said he wanted Mason Rudolph
Speaker 1: to play Deante Johnson and yeah, and the Steelers had
Speaker 1: thirteen edge of time and possession. They converted twelve of
Speaker 1: sixteen third down opportunities and that's when Deante did a
Speaker 1: lot of his damage. So there you go. The Steelers
Speaker 1: continue to get better. The Panthers are, you know, just
Speaker 1: the team in the NFC South, which was the Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler drive of the I just thought that was the
Speaker 1: coolest thing that's happened on us. I mean I still
Speaker 1: have access to watch it. He does have his time.
Speaker 1: I was burning, but yeah, I do watch all the
Speaker 1: games at the same time. On this we go just
Speaker 1: quickly big picture. Pittsburgh's in the a f C at
Speaker 1: six and eight if so, they're kind of in it.
Speaker 1: I mean they're really not in it, but they're two
Speaker 1: back with with three to play, so they're that much.
Speaker 1: If Indianapolis had won that game, we would have fourteen
Speaker 1: FC teams still alive. But there's so many of these
Speaker 1: six and eight teams. Jacksonville, who has a better chance
Speaker 1: because they're in you know, division race, and then Las Vegas, Cleveland, Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of those three team goes total berserker and
Speaker 1: gets the nine wins, and that's a bad thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not good that five and eight teams are alive
Speaker 1: going into weeks six. NFL wouldn't agree with that. I
Speaker 1: know they wouldn't have, but this is what they wanted.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's suggest telling you it's a
Speaker 1: great thing. These teams, like those four teams are a
Speaker 1: perfect example, but especially Jaguars, Raiders, Browns. I would throw
Speaker 1: the Steelers like they're They weren't as bad as their
Speaker 1: record before and now it's all even down. They all
Speaker 1: deserve to be They're all like six and eight teams
Speaker 1: and just has maybe better. A shout out to Pittsburgh's defense,
Speaker 1: which saxon Donald four times and completely shut down the
Speaker 1: Carolina running game, which had had average close to two
Speaker 1: yards in their five wins, had twenty one yards on
Speaker 1: sixteen carries. So you know that I am a Donald defender.
Speaker 1: But if you take ways running game and you say, Sam,
Speaker 1: you need to leave this offense, Sam, it ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and we'll be right back al right.
Speaker 1: Beefy beefy week, No buys. So we keep rolling on.
Speaker 1: Let's head to Soldier Field, where the Eagles are looking
Speaker 1: to put the NFC in a vice gript they line
Speaker 1: up and they stick and that was a penalty flying
Speaker 1: they called the touchdown. Now it could have been defensive,
Speaker 1: that's what that is. He knows. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know how we got to that point. I that was
Speaker 1: Jalen hurts third rushing touchdown of the of the day,
Speaker 1: which by the way, has not happened on QB design
Speaker 1: runs by any quarterback ever in the next gen stats era.
Speaker 1: So I thought that I thought that would be an
Speaker 1: interesting call seven years They also they also I'll get
Speaker 1: into why this was a little bit of a different game. Yes,
Speaker 1: I didn't think it was. There might have been a
Speaker 1: full looks like I did not commented. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I agree with you. That was milk toast. Jalen Hurts, Yes,
Speaker 1: tied a career high by running for three touchdowns. The
Speaker 1: Eagles beat the Bears. Interesting Eagles are thirteen and one.
Speaker 1: That matches the best starting franchise history. But Mark Sessler,
Speaker 1: this was not easy as many of us anticipated. It
Speaker 1: wasn't And I would say that, you know, we say
Speaker 1: the Eagles keep finding different ways to win each week. Uh,
Speaker 1: this would be the case again because they had overcome
Speaker 1: a lot of their own issues. Jalen Hurts uncharacteristically through
Speaker 1: two interceptions. Uh the Eagles route played for a big
Speaker 1: chunk of the first half. Jake Elliott, with the team
Speaker 1: up seventeen thirteen, missed the thirty eight yard field goal
Speaker 1: they allowed Byron Pringle to essentially run in four share
Speaker 1: it with us. I have to do not disturb on.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's happening in Sometimes perhaps it was
Speaker 1: what can you let her know we're doing she's watching,
Speaker 1: Actually she's watching the live stream, which you can go
Speaker 1: to NFL dot com. Mark. Yeah, I'm not surprised that
Speaker 1: you actually would love to know that she just did
Speaker 1: that to Mark. I'm not surprised at all. You stopping Mark,
Speaker 1: you gotta argue that, and then Greg stopping Dan from
Speaker 1: stopping Mark from stopping justin so it's just like I'm
Speaker 1: going to fold up the laptop and someone's utterly exhausted
Speaker 1: as the host. I'm sorry, Mark. I had to address
Speaker 1: because the audience obviously was thrown for a loop there
Speaker 1: as well, and I just didn't want to leave them
Speaker 1: out in the cold. It was a delightful bell. We
Speaker 1: didn't need to die. The sound in the podcast version
Speaker 1: because it was a very strange to take it out.
Speaker 1: Now you have to, alright, go ahead, Mark, Well, it's
Speaker 1: just was saying the Eagles like they were not perfect
Speaker 1: like they've been the last couple of weeks. They didn't
Speaker 1: even give miles and we got to wrap up this,
Speaker 1: uh this episode because she was starting to get fired
Speaker 1: up show under the next game, Like what is the
Speaker 1: point of doing this? I'm just saying, I'm I'm starting
Speaker 1: to see the anger building and I just find it
Speaker 1: like I find it. I find it tedious to take
Speaker 1: notes on a game and then none of them are
Speaker 1: given to the listener. It's like, I feel for the listener.
Speaker 1: I feel for the listener. That's the ultimate loser here.
Speaker 1: They struggled and they overcame their struggles. That's all. The's
Speaker 1: all I'll say about it at this point. Anyway, what
Speaker 1: else give us some more that son Reddick seemed like
Speaker 1: a j Brown and this is not going to be
Speaker 1: favorable for Justin's ears a career high one eighty one yards.
Speaker 1: He was dominant when they started to make plays. This
Speaker 1: is like this was their bad game. It kind of
Speaker 1: reminded me of the Chiefs game. It's like the Chiefs
Speaker 1: had a bunch of issues they got out of it.
Speaker 1: What were the Chiefs on the other side mostly what
Speaker 1: we think this was Philadelphia's version that they still had
Speaker 1: four hundred yards of offense. They still had a defense
Speaker 1: that had three players with two sacks that dominated the
Speaker 1: Bears outside of Justin Fields doing a couple of magical things.
Speaker 1: Field got hurt at one point, it came back in.
Speaker 1: They've clinched the division. They basically have Dallas next week
Speaker 1: that can be the number one seed that they win.
Speaker 1: That this was the Phillies bad game. I don't know
Speaker 1: who's going to stop him in the NFC and left
Speaker 1: San Francisco plays one of their best operations, one of
Speaker 1: the best outings, and yet it's like box office Justin
Speaker 1: Fields in a game against you know, Jalen Hurts. Who's
Speaker 1: in the mix for m v P. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: Justin Fields should be in the mix for m v
Speaker 1: P in anyway, but think of how valuable he is
Speaker 1: to the Bears, that he more or less by himself.
Speaker 1: They like that. I'm saying, in this game, how much
Speaker 1: value does he now have that he runs fift He's
Speaker 1: on his way to having the greatest season rushing the
Speaker 1: ball any quarterback in the history leagues. Everybody say he's
Speaker 1: almost too valuable to this team. No doubt the fact
Speaker 1: that he has them competing in this game. It's pretty
Speaker 1: special and at least it's exciting in a weird way.
Speaker 1: The Bears keep stacking these losses while justin Field keep
Speaker 1: his balling out is perfect because they're gonna have uh
Speaker 1: the tour, maybe the two or the three pick in
Speaker 1: a draft with Jalen Carter like they You know, they
Speaker 1: also have about forty seven million more cap dollars than
Speaker 1: the next closest team. The fellow I've been doing the
Speaker 1: free agency list like it's a bunch of players you
Speaker 1: don't want to be spending a lot of monty. Also
Speaker 1: the point being they don't have a ton of cash
Speaker 1: tied up in a bunch of junk. Anything else in
Speaker 1: that reporter's journal ark there's a ton more. But I
Speaker 1: think we need to you know, we're being told it's
Speaker 1: time to hurry the show up, and we don't want
Speaker 1: to listeners. If there's something else in there, well I'll
Speaker 1: email it to the listeners. All right, Let's then move
Speaker 1: back to Saturday. Why don't we were the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: They were trying to stay in the in the hunt category,
Speaker 1: but they had to beat the af C North leading
Speaker 1: Ravens to do it. Could they five step drop looking left,
Speaker 1: he swings it let People's Jones he's in standing up, touchdown,
Speaker 1: the touchdown pass from the Shawn Watson the Donovan People's
Speaker 1: Jones from three yards out and Cleveland expands its lead.
Speaker 1: All right, So there was a historic opening game Saturday.
Speaker 1: There was a highly memorable game in the snow in
Speaker 1: Buffalo at the end of the night. In the middle
Speaker 1: was you know, you don't usually have this. The worst
Speaker 1: part of the sandwich was all the meat in the middle,
Speaker 1: which was the Ravens and the Browns, and the Browns
Speaker 1: take care of business against Ty Huntley with a Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson inact of a thirteen to three win. That Donovan
Speaker 1: People Jones three yard touchdown catch came from Deshaun Watson,
Speaker 1: who was making his home debut for Cleveland. So there
Speaker 1: you go. The Browns um have one. Uh. This game
Speaker 1: in Baltimore entered having one six of seven. Now drop
Speaker 1: behind the Bengals who are looking up in the n
Speaker 1: f C North. This would be like two beautiful, perfectly
Speaker 1: created and cooked heated buttery pieces of sour dough bread
Speaker 1: with some stale mannaise in the middle, out of data,
Speaker 1: and you just manaise out of date mannaise to your parallel.
Speaker 1: You don't like me, And this game lasted about two
Speaker 1: hours and fifty minutes. It was perfect for me, But Greig,
Speaker 1: I don't like stale mayonnaise either. Just to throw that
Speaker 1: at you. But I'm just saying, get I don't think
Speaker 1: I disliked this game as much as as you guys did.
Speaker 1: Was serviceable. It happened quickly. It's it was it was
Speaker 1: I mean, it just was over so fast. There were
Speaker 1: so few possessions, nine each. The Ravens only punted one time.
Speaker 1: You know how hard it is to score three points
Speaker 1: when you only punt once. Here here's how you do it. Uh,
Speaker 1: You get inside the ten, call a play for your
Speaker 1: fullback who has like space, and he can't get a
Speaker 1: half a yard on John Johnson, who outweighs by about
Speaker 1: forty yeard. It's nice defensive played by John Johnson. You
Speaker 1: get inside the ten another time, Denzel Ward picks off
Speaker 1: a pass. De Sean Jackson doesn't fight for really not
Speaker 1: a great throw either. Zero points there inside the ten.
Speaker 1: Twice you get Justin Tucker to miss two field calls.
Speaker 1: What the heck happened there? Uh, you throw a fumble
Speaker 1: and then the only touchdown that you give up or
Speaker 1: you have a fun ball and then the only touchdown
Speaker 1: you give up in the game was after you stopped
Speaker 1: the Browns out of three and out. But there was
Speaker 1: a penalty on a face mask by Justin Houston. It
Speaker 1: was just a really sloppy game from the Ravens and
Speaker 1: the Browns, to their credit, has been playing better defense
Speaker 1: overall and didn't make many big mistakes. And the Browns
Speaker 1: hurt the Ravens in every possible way you could outside
Speaker 1: of a dominant offense. I do think Deshaun Watson looked better.
Speaker 1: There were moments where you thought he looked a little
Speaker 1: more comfortable. Their offense is not what it was before,
Speaker 1: but even you know, I think it was important for
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb to get have a bit of a better game.
Speaker 1: He has had a tough couple of weeks. But Cleveland's defense,
Speaker 1: which is really cost them this season. Sometimes against these
Speaker 1: divisional opponents, they show up and then they vanish again.
Speaker 1: But the Ravens they had. They've had these close games
Speaker 1: with the Ravens and this was another one of them.
Speaker 1: And Miles Garrett like I don't know, every week he
Speaker 1: seems to be I know, he's not a defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year because their defense isn't special and what
Speaker 1: does that really even mean? But he is among still
Speaker 1: the top five defenders in the entire game. Got to
Speaker 1: play like a lot of weeks. They play like an
Speaker 1: eight and six team, which they easily could have been
Speaker 1: if if they just closed out a couple of those
Speaker 1: brutal losses they had earlier in the year. So there's
Speaker 1: certainly no pushover. And if if Watson continues to get better,
Speaker 1: although these are baby steps to say he's getting better, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna be trouble, maybe as soon as
Speaker 1: next year, and there they could be in berserker mode
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. By the way, the
Speaker 1: they have a pretty easy schedule. I looked at the
Speaker 1: six and eight teams, they have the easiest schedule among them.
Speaker 1: All winnable games here. Well, remember it was Nick Shook
Speaker 1: who forked the Browns, so that comes that he needs
Speaker 1: to reach out to a local food bank in Cleveland
Speaker 1: if the Browns and probably make the playoffs. But you
Speaker 1: know what, I think he would sign off on that
Speaker 1: this was a wonky game, uh, in terms of scheduling
Speaker 1: as well, because you had the first game, which was
Speaker 1: the classic with all the scoring and it went to overtime.
Speaker 1: So NFL Network held all these games, so they throw
Speaker 1: it to this game in the second quarter, so you
Speaker 1: missed the first quarter and then the game goes super
Speaker 1: quickly and then all of a sudden and ops to
Speaker 1: Colleen and Steve Smith and m j D. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to leave the last person out? Who else
Speaker 1: was Mike Rob? Real Rob? They all sa had to
Speaker 1: feel like forty five minutes to an hour, I believe
Speaker 1: it was, and they did it expertly. So really a strange,
Speaker 1: stale mayo. I think it has to be a meat
Speaker 1: product in between the sour dough though lamb's tongue, So
Speaker 1: this is the lamb's tongue of the sandwich. I would
Speaker 1: sign off on that I was at a place um
Speaker 1: at the base of a mountain called the Party Doll,
Speaker 1: watching Colleen and m j D and the rest try
Speaker 1: to get through that it was a very strange time.
Speaker 1: She she was tough out there, no gloves on, and
Speaker 1: Steve we're hurting, was ready to go. They were getting
Speaker 1: after Mike Ravens are going to be killing themselves that
Speaker 1: they ran. Edwards went seven point nine yards per carry
Speaker 1: and Dobbins went nine point six and they managed to
Speaker 1: like not be that competitive in this game. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty costly I liked the real Rob's leather jacket that
Speaker 1: zipped up like like indent left and he kind of
Speaker 1: looked like a Z's friend in the leather from a
Speaker 1: pulp fiction the third act of pulp Ficture. It was
Speaker 1: a very out of the game collection. UM. Anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: let's move on. We have one more game to hit.
Speaker 1: Back to Sunday. It was at Mile High Stadium, and
Speaker 1: this will be quick. They tossed it left side. Here
Speaker 1: comes Murray blocker out and side five touchdown. Stretch gets
Speaker 1: up and go celebrating. He's around weather this year. Dave
Speaker 1: Logan with a call ko A. Russell Wilson cleared concussion protocol,
Speaker 1: but the decision was made by Nathaniel Hacking and the
Speaker 1: Broncos to keep him on the bench after that. Um
Speaker 1: getting knocked out last week, so Brett Rippon steps in
Speaker 1: and get some help from Octavius Murray and the defense
Speaker 1: plays well again has been the case all season for
Speaker 1: the Broncos. That has never been the problem. And against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals team without Kyler Murray, they get the win
Speaker 1: to Murray greg Ran for a hundred and thirty and
Speaker 1: a touchdown. He's looked good and Marlon macklock better in
Speaker 1: this game, like keeping careers going here in Denver. It
Speaker 1: was sad game though, because Colt McCoy went out with
Speaker 1: a concussion, and considering his concussion problems over the years,
Speaker 1: it's concerning. He was on a third and one uh
Speaker 1: QB sneak at that point. The game was close. Trace
Speaker 1: McSorley came in and and was overmatched against this Broncos defense,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't that close. It was interesting. I saw
Speaker 1: that there was not eighteen thousand plus no shows empty
Speaker 1: seat Denver. In Denver, that's a that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: That is a football crazy town that has always loved
Speaker 1: their Broncos. That tells you, I mean the owner, it's
Speaker 1: new ownership. They're freaking out when they see all those
Speaker 1: empty that's I mean, I think it's the top three
Speaker 1: football town of any NFL city, and I have friends
Speaker 1: that have sitting season tickets there and I you know
Speaker 1: they're they've been unhappy obviously, but to not show up
Speaker 1: because even when the team's bad, and they had a
Speaker 1: lot of bad teams, it's still a great party. And
Speaker 1: so it's like really basically a very loud voice saying
Speaker 1: fix this now. And I don't know what you go
Speaker 1: into next season with. But Greg, I mean not to
Speaker 1: belabor this conversation. If Brett Rippian is going twenty one
Speaker 1: for twenty six, is it just a little short dump
Speaker 1: off passes and screens? What are we looking at here?
Speaker 1: That's that's so much better than what Russell Wilson was.
Speaker 1: That's something like wild not good throws. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of darts in there too, across
Speaker 1: the field and the son of or the related to
Speaker 1: an NFL champion. I just mean there were some pretty
Speaker 1: nice throws in there. I'm not going to say his
Speaker 1: father's name was Mark Mark Rippian, but I wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure that it wasn't. I'm like, sure it wasn't
Speaker 1: his uncle or something that was last name Rippian. I say, rip,
Speaker 1: That's how I've always said it. I know you always
Speaker 1: say it that way. There are things I say, they
Speaker 1: say it ripping for what it's worth. Well, then I
Speaker 1: should probably correct how I'm saying. Why one of those
Speaker 1: last names? Are you here? Different ways? I've only heard
Speaker 1: it from you, Rippean, it's R Y P I E N.
Speaker 1: So I think even as a child, a young football fan,
Speaker 1: I was hearing it. Exactly, I understand. So if it
Speaker 1: was in your head back, then it's not. I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to stage shade confrontation with the family over as
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas from the Rampians exactly. All right, We've come
Speaker 1: to the end of the yellow Brick Roads. Sunday Night
Speaker 1: football from Landover Giants Commanders. The winner seventies something we
Speaker 1: sent chance of making the playoffs. The loser thirty something
Speaker 1: percent chance of making the playoffs. Yeah, you could say
Speaker 1: it's a big game. Shiant fans on their feet here
Speaker 1: in Washington, trying to urge on this defense. Heinecke in
Speaker 1: a shotgun set. It's the snap, he's back to throw,
Speaker 1: he's under pressure, he backs away from pressure, still looking now,
Speaker 1: rolls left, clows into the end zone. And it's not
Speaker 1: the way to complete Carne Holmes knocking away Tipodeaux had
Speaker 1: a monster game, but Darnay Holmes makes to keep playing
Speaker 1: on Samuel and the Giant fans rejoice here at FedEx
Speaker 1: Field hows they hold on on a fourth and goal
Speaker 1: the sixth, leading by eight. New York City. If you're
Speaker 1: here in the tinsel Town tune stars, you know the
Speaker 1: Jiman came out on top with some help from the officials. Man,
Speaker 1: the officials did not cover themselves in glory this weekend.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what a wow own. That was a
Speaker 1: pass interference. Anyway, the Giants get the big stop Cavon
Speaker 1: Thibodeau had our friend, our buddy had the big sack
Speaker 1: bumble recovery touchdown earlier in the game. That set the tone,
Speaker 1: and Washington looked like they were going in for a score.
Speaker 1: In fact, they did go in for a score, and
Speaker 1: we're setting up for the two point conversion to try
Speaker 1: to push the game to overtime, but no, another contrayson calling.
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin wipes away a t D and then yes,
Speaker 1: that final player you just heard, twenty to twelve final
Speaker 1: Giants in control now for that playoff spot, and Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler um good job by the Giants. Again, this kind
Speaker 1: of harkened back to the earlier part of their season
Speaker 1: where they kind of find a way. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: i'd I'd point to Brian Dable making what I thought
Speaker 1: was the call of the game. There was that really incredible.
Speaker 1: And we've seen a couple of great drives today. Um,
Speaker 1: this was an eighteen play nineties seven yard drive that
Speaker 1: eighty eight up eight plus minutes and he went forth
Speaker 1: from fourth to nine from the Commanders thirty five and
Speaker 1: it went They converted and went on to score a
Speaker 1: touchdown to go fourteen to three. I'd love that about Dable.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing about this team all year long.
Speaker 1: Are they a talented team? Are they their record? No?
Speaker 1: But Dable has put them in position to do those
Speaker 1: types of things where I flipped the flip it around
Speaker 1: and look at riverboat Ron, who is not riding on
Speaker 1: a riverboat at the moment. Who chose to two points
Speaker 1: punt from the Giants thirty four yard line and also
Speaker 1: from the Giants forty yard line, And these are two
Speaker 1: teams that look at look at similar situations in different ways.
Speaker 1: Everything you're saying I agree with, but I can't get
Speaker 1: past the end of the game in the way that
Speaker 1: this was handled by the refs, because Terry mcclaurin looks
Speaker 1: twice to the officials on the side to see if
Speaker 1: he's lined up properly. Because when the guy in the
Speaker 1: slot moves out, he now has to be at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He looks over twice to the official
Speaker 1: and and twice it appears he doesn't get any signal
Speaker 1: to say, no, you're not there. I would love to
Speaker 1: hear what they're saying after the game about that. And
Speaker 1: then a clear and obvious p I also goes against
Speaker 1: Washington here and yet Greg, I guess the way to
Speaker 1: look at it is, yes, they kind of got job there,
Speaker 1: but there was some fumble luck and interception luck dropped
Speaker 1: interception by Taylor Heineke on a fumble snap, So it
Speaker 1: was a bit of a sloppy and in general, but God,
Speaker 1: what people are gonna be talking about is the officiating,
Speaker 1: which is stinks, you know, like this, It was fitting
Speaker 1: for these two teams that it came down to the
Speaker 1: end like that, and it was a little ugly at
Speaker 1: the end because Washington could not finish drives throughout the night.
Speaker 1: Did they score touchdown. They score one touchdown in the game,
Speaker 1: and they got inside the tent a few times there
Speaker 1: at the end. But the past interference was so beyond play.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just at the catch point where he
Speaker 1: has his hands all over him and his restricting dots
Speaker 1: and Johan Dotson who made a great catch earlier in
Speaker 1: that drive to set up the game ending sequence. Uh.
Speaker 1: He also grabbed Dotson's arm earlier in the route to
Speaker 1: the point where Dotson had to like move up his
Speaker 1: sleeves during the play. I've never seen that before, Like
Speaker 1: do you need to have your sleeves back in place
Speaker 1: during the play. But that's that's how much contact there was,
Speaker 1: and it is a disappointing end uh to the game.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it should take away from that
Speaker 1: se Juan Barkley performance either, um in terms of him
Speaker 1: breaking tackles in that last drive that that felt like
Speaker 1: kind of a great sae Quon Barkley moment, uh in
Speaker 1: a season where he had been struggling over the last month.
Speaker 1: Is there not a better argument for reviewing past interference.
Speaker 1: Maybe you review past interference in the red zone. YEA,
Speaker 1: I know, but we could be through it. But if
Speaker 1: the if the answers, we don't you get this tonight,
Speaker 1: because Dan, I agree it like you asked me to, Like,
Speaker 1: there's no bigger playing this game than that, and that's
Speaker 1: that's going to be the talking point, and no other
Speaker 1: play kind of matters. But the thing is there were
Speaker 1: a lot of other players that mattered in this game
Speaker 1: that when it comes down to that, if that can't
Speaker 1: be reviewed, the McLaren think it actually is more mystifying
Speaker 1: to me. Well, here's the thing, and I Collinsworth said it,
Speaker 1: and collins with obviously he's been doing this a million years,
Speaker 1: and he played the game and he he makes the
Speaker 1: comment that the officials do not want to make a
Speaker 1: call in that point of the game. And I agree
Speaker 1: with that. When it's ticky tack, when it's just hand fighting,
Speaker 1: yes you let the game get settled. But when it
Speaker 1: crosses that line where it's very clear what's happening, you
Speaker 1: just can't miss that call. And and I just think
Speaker 1: after especially the way this weekend started with the Vikings
Speaker 1: and there were some just terrible officiating in that game
Speaker 1: as well. To have another Island game at the end
Speaker 1: of otherwise great weekend of football, it's crazy um, that's
Speaker 1: just the way it played out. But you know, Washington,
Speaker 1: it feels like if they look back on this season
Speaker 1: and it's outside the playoffs, it wasn't just those calls.
Speaker 1: It was the previous possession where they're going towards the
Speaker 1: end zone again and Heineke gets knocked down and loses
Speaker 1: the ball and they review it and it's a fumble.
Speaker 1: Another huge turnover in this game. And I think for Washington,
Speaker 1: while the momentum they had coming off the by with
Speaker 1: the Giants and a lot of trouble, to let this
Speaker 1: game get away at home, that hurts. Yeah, And there's
Speaker 1: it's there are little other things like they were. It
Speaker 1: was fourteen to nine, and why because Washington converted to
Speaker 1: two point conversion, there's an O P I so it's
Speaker 1: taken away. They line up Joey slide for the P
Speaker 1: A T and he misses it. I mean, just little
Speaker 1: points and plays left on the board here for Washington
Speaker 1: because they are sloppy team. So are the Giants in
Speaker 1: many ways. And it's like, all right that you could
Speaker 1: play this time things twelve times and they probably would
Speaker 1: each when at six there I don't see a huge
Speaker 1: difference between these It's crazy. This is uh, this is
Speaker 1: a case for having a week off. Arrest is like
Speaker 1: overrated because they tied, the Giants had the week off
Speaker 1: that while the Giants are getting blasted come back and
Speaker 1: then lose. I gotta give the Giants defense credit for
Speaker 1: playing with a lot of energy. I know the stats
Speaker 1: ended up being in Washington's favor, but especially early in
Speaker 1: the game, Thibodeaux was all over the place. He gets seven.
Speaker 1: We we said, I think going into it, they're gonna
Speaker 1: need some Heineke mistakes in this game. In Heineke through
Speaker 1: the ball well, but he lost two fumbles. He fumbled
Speaker 1: twice against the Giants on in the first game against
Speaker 1: them as well. And those two fumbles and Thibodeau scoring
Speaker 1: seven and getting a few other tackles for lost also
Speaker 1: twelve total tackles. Like he's in coverage on one of
Speaker 1: the biggest plays in the game. I'm not sure about that,
Speaker 1: but it's like he was all over the place. Ocelari
Speaker 1: had a big play at the end to like their
Speaker 1: defense played with energy. That was on that third and
Speaker 1: six where he's dragging Heinike down to the ground own
Speaker 1: and Heinik throws these short and completion, which the Giants
Speaker 1: probably just need to win one more game. They're well,
Speaker 1: they're at eight wins. If you get to nine in
Speaker 1: less Detroit UH or Seattle wins, all three Giants are
Speaker 1: probably in. And according to ESPN Analytics, the Giants now
Speaker 1: have a nine percent chance of reaching the playoffs and
Speaker 1: Washington is down to thirty six. So just a massive
Speaker 1: uh swing in that game. I have our friend Mark
Speaker 1: Cavon Thibodeau. He did that thing on the field where
Speaker 1: they take your camera and you do the selfie video
Speaker 1: and you're very amped up. I'm gonna play it for
Speaker 1: everyone right now. You see all we got one on
Speaker 1: and you see my hair crazy. But that's December. Football
Speaker 1: is below two degrees and were trying to play and
Speaker 1: we're trying to finish. Man, go big Blue. I wish
Speaker 1: we had that guy in the studio back in June. Mark.
Speaker 1: He got poked in the I at the end of
Speaker 1: the game, Thibodeaux, But this is why they made him
Speaker 1: a top five pick in the draft, to have this
Speaker 1: type of impact game in primetime. That was his coming
Speaker 1: out party. Big game. Yeah. I think if we could
Speaker 1: have um, you know, seen the future and told him
Speaker 1: how the asked couple the last month or so, we
Speaker 1: go for him and share that news with the nut
Speaker 1: interview might have gone a little bit better, But I
Speaker 1: would say this, he is has been a successful pick
Speaker 1: for the Giants so far last like four or five
Speaker 1: six weeks. He's making plays every single time they finally
Speaker 1: have someone. Now the Giants are in a much better position.
Speaker 1: And yet I'm just gonna be real with the listeners,
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch either of these teams in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I'm rooting for a scenario where they both
Speaker 1: fall out. I don't know if that's possible, the backers
Speaker 1: even could get in there, or I'm just saying two
Speaker 1: of those three teams I've seen enough. NFC Washington has
Speaker 1: San Francisco, the Eagles in San Francisco, Cleveland, and Dallas,
Speaker 1: So Washington is not so easy slate. The first round
Speaker 1: of the NFC playoffs isn't gonna be so hot because
Speaker 1: you're gonna have an NFC South team and one of
Speaker 1: these types of teams. For what it's worth, NBC's Terry McAuley,
Speaker 1: who's their referee guy, said it was definite dp I
Speaker 1: on Giants and end Zone and he wouldn't have thrown
Speaker 1: the flag for commander's wide receiver lining. Oh but how
Speaker 1: do you see the problems? Right? I gotta say macauley.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong here, But is it mere? Does it?
Speaker 1: Seemed like some of the other official analysts Sometimes there's
Speaker 1: a lot of officials. I think McCauley comes for the heads. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why he gets bricks through his window with the
Speaker 1: paper with the rubber band, Like stop now, Terry. He won't.
Speaker 1: He won't stop because he can't, because he's a beacon
Speaker 1: of truth. You can't stop a name. A man named
Speaker 1: Terry can't stop it. Terry. Okay, the West Bros locked
Speaker 1: the commanders, did they? Why do I never we taped
Speaker 1: too many shows? Okay, all right, good stuff, good app
Speaker 1: Not keep it up this week? Nick? Why you gotta
Speaker 1: do that? You don't need it? Um? Nick hanging there?
Speaker 1: But hey, keep fighting. We'll be back on Monday, Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football recap, Greg Rosenthal and Bill barn about coming
Speaker 1: back Billy be visit to talk Rams and the Packers
Speaker 1: from lambeau Field. And then we'll be back Tuesday. And
Speaker 1: then we go through the whole thing again. The wheel,
Speaker 1: the wheel and the sky keeps on turning. Steve Burd
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for sticking around, he'd the call