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Speaker 1: bozoh Dare you welcome back to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast presented by Head and Shoulders. My

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Speaker 1: name is Dan Hansis and I am joined by a

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Speaker 1: room that's filled with some heroes. Mark Sessler on my left,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthalt on my right. What is up? Boys? Hey,

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Speaker 1: a little bit to talk about. We're just recovering right now.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm an incredible day of action. Yeah, first

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Speaker 1: day of the Australian Open isn't exciting really in every

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Speaker 1: sports fans life, what a time you always knew, like

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Speaker 1: exactly where you were in your life when you first

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Speaker 1: became exposed to the Australian Open. For me, it was

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Speaker 1: today in the newsroom when Gregg said it was something

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Speaker 1: passion and joy around the event. The other thing going

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Speaker 1: on in this sporting world is Divisional Round weekend and uh.

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Speaker 1: In our last show, um I I offered the the

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Speaker 1: viewpoint which I think is shared by many, that Divisional

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Speaker 1: Round football is the best football weekend of the year

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Speaker 1: because you've got eight teams. In most cases, almost all

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Speaker 1: would say, one good game, one terrible game, one great game,

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Speaker 1: and one absolute stone cold classic. Is that fair? Greg?

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Speaker 1: In that order? I think that that's all fair. Although

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Speaker 1: almost any other situation. And it certainly felt like the

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Speaker 1: story of the weekend when it's seventeen nothing Vikings and

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Speaker 1: second half and half the newsrooms falling a slip leap.

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Speaker 1: But the Saints and the Vikings had a little something

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Speaker 1: extra for us. Well, we were talking about that Saints

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Speaker 1: Earlier in the game was putting people to sleep. Nothing

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Speaker 1: what exactly had just transpired. It was that type of

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Speaker 1: But this is how we got there. And yeah, sometimes

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Speaker 1: of the best game tames in NFL history caps the weekend.

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Speaker 1: That is where we start in Minnesota. Let's go falltime.

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Speaker 1: Case on a deep Throp steps up in the pocket,

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Speaker 1: With seconds to play, Uh completed completed a past the

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Speaker 1: There's never been a walkoff touchdown to end a game

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Speaker 1: But you really would love to see one of these

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Speaker 1: great drama. Um, but this game had it all and

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Speaker 1: through like this on the road with your offense, that

430
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,399
Speaker 1: was the story. And the defense made big plays and

431
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 1: that can't be ignored the turnovers that they forced. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that they had a terrible

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Speaker 1: day because they gave up five forty yards. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: their best day and they certainly would have liked to

435
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,159
Speaker 1: handle that to seven lead a little better. But the

436
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,480
Speaker 1: fact that it was the offense in the end, especially

437
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, responding great play calls by Nathaniel

438
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,719
Speaker 1: Hackey Bordles doing what he needed to do. I mean,

439
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: just look at the people who are catching passes here.

440
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: Keelan Cole one catch, one huge catch, yelled and led

441
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,959
Speaker 1: the team in receiving. Koyak one huge catch, O'Shaughnessy one

442
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:15,919
Speaker 1: huge catch, bo Hanon one huge catch. It was just

443
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: like a little bit of this enough running some bigger

444
00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,520
Speaker 1: plays on defense, and I think they got to go

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00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,560
Speaker 1: into New England just feeling great. And they're a talented team.

446
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:28,680
Speaker 1: They win is because they have talent. They got crazy swagger. Also,

447
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,800
Speaker 1: they really and they love and they loved when they win.

448
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,240
Speaker 1: They celebrate a win like nobody else in the league.

449
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: And Blake Bortles, I feel good for Blake. I'm happy

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00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,199
Speaker 1: for Blake Bortles. Never met the man, uh. I think

451
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,159
Speaker 1: I met him at one of those pre draftings and

452
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 1: he looked thirty seven then. But that's beside the point.

453
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,560
Speaker 1: But for him to come out after all the trash

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00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:50,640
Speaker 1: talk on him and deliver a really solid game. Even

455
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,800
Speaker 1: after as the Steelers were charging back and it felt

456
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,720
Speaker 1: like they were gonna take over the game, Blake Bortles

457
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,879
Speaker 1: kept on making throws and and I was speaking to

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Speaker 1: the swagger and to the Blake Borders criticism. Here is

459
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,720
Speaker 1: Malik Jackson. You're gonna hear colaias Campbell first and then

460
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 1: Malik Jackson coming in later in the locker locker room.

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00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,119
Speaker 1: The credit here to Elyssa Lang, the First Coast First

462
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 1: Coast News Swagger. He's a great ud. You know, he

463
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: loves the game. He makes everybody prepared and every time

464
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: he's going there, he's a true competitor. You know, he

465
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: has a lot of heart and on people can down

466
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: them one they want to, but we know what he

467
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: can do, and he proved it today. He's a dog.

468
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: I wanna know what Drill Casey has to say about

469
00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: him choking in big moments while you sto at home

470
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:33,679
Speaker 1: and watch us next week. It's fair who would have

471
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: thought that the Titans, the Titans Jagguars rivalry is heating

472
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Speaker 1: up going into a championship, giving New England a waltz

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Speaker 1: to the a f C suth to get to the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I mean, the one thing is, last time

475
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: they played Big Ben, they forced him to fifty seven

476
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,919
Speaker 1: passes in five picks. This time around, we got a

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00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: completely different Ben roths for a couple of big mistakes

478
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:57,080
Speaker 1: early on a bad interception, the strip sack that that

479
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: was to that changed this game. But he threw four

480
00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,840
Speaker 1: of the prettiest touchdown passes you will see all season

481
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,960
Speaker 1: five on the day, four hundred and sixty nine yards,

482
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,040
Speaker 1: that one killer pick. But I mean I felt over

483
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 1: and over watching this with you guys. I kept thinking

484
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: at least five or six times. So you're Stittzburgh is

485
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,520
Speaker 1: gonna win this game? There? Well, if he said, you

486
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: said game over at one point when the when the

487
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 1: Steelers were down seven and didn't have the ball you're like,

488
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: give us the couple before that too. This was this

489
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,119
Speaker 1: was Mark super ball, to give a little peek behind

490
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: the curtain. You were living and dying, and it's not

491
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:31,840
Speaker 1: like the Patriots. I do not like the Steelers as

492
00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 1: a Browns fan, and I lost any sense of you know,

493
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: I wrote the game up and I hope a professional manner,

494
00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:39,919
Speaker 1: but you know, I think at one point I whipped

495
00:25:39,920 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: a pillow across the news room. I think it was

496
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 1: like a peek behind the curtain, about a peak behind

497
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 1: the blinds. We sit in the corner of the newsroom.

498
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: And after I think was the fumble return for a touch, Yes,

499
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: it was to make seven. Mark has a cute little

500
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: pillow that he sits on to keep his hiding nice

501
00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: and warm. Well, there's there's I had a blood issue

502
00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 1: last year and I was supposed to keep a leg

503
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 1: elevated and for some reason, I've just kept it on

504
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: my seat. So Mark's little heiny pillow. He picked it up, right,

505
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,479
Speaker 1: heiny pillow. He threw it against the blinds and if

506
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: anybody's sitting here, so it probably would have been like

507
00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: a head turn. But there was a management figure who

508
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,960
Speaker 1: popped his head out of an office. But but yeah,

509
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: so that Mark was hyper invested in this game. The

510
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: good thing though, this is the only thing you get

511
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: because I know you do liking it. To my hatred

512
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: of the Patriots, the Steelers end up losing a lot

513
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: like the Patriot there in their seventh straight a f

514
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 1: C title game. For all the talk about this quote

515
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: unquote Steelers Patriots rivalry in the past seven years, the

516
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,959
Speaker 1: Steelers have only made it that far once, and and

517
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: and a lot more to unpack with the Jacks. But

518
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: with the Steelers, where do they go from here after

519
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,200
Speaker 1: a loss like this where their defense laid one of

520
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: the biggest eggs you can imagine. I know Ryan Shay's

521
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: ears not there, but what an egg to lay when

522
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: the offense was time and time again saying hey, guys,

523
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Speaker 1: let us take care of this game and steal this

524
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 1: one and get to New England. But the defense just

525
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: wasn't up to the tech. Lesson for me is that

526
00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: we keep and it. Greg. I always kill you for this,

527
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:04,879
Speaker 1: and I think it's just because we don't know how

528
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,399
Speaker 1: these seasons. Today shows you how weird these seasons could be.

529
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: But the idea that we're equating certain teams to be

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Speaker 1: on New England's level or have it. There really is

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00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: only one Patriots and the Steelers are a deep second place,

532
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: and they and they, there is a fatal flaw that

533
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: seems to creep up with with with Pittsburgh every year,

534
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: to the point where with Dave damnit check crows about

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00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: how the Steelers have had such a tough time, and

536
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: you're like, whatever, I'd love to be a Steelers. We

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00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: still have Glitter by the way, on our floor here

538
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,360
Speaker 1: because Shaq had Glitter dumped on him for predicting thirteen

539
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:32,840
Speaker 1: and three things. But in the end he has a

540
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: point because their seasons always end in these awful ways

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Speaker 1: outside of a couple of Super Bowls here and there. Well,

542
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: that's but that's what happens to every team essentially. I

543
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: mean that that's what happens to the Packers over the

544
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: last seven or eight years. And you're right, the Steelers

545
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: haven't always been their different AFC teams have taken turns.

546
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 1: It's been the Colts, it's been the Broncos, the Ravens.

547
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the Pittsburgh Steelers. And you're right, Dan, the

548
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: numbers look great for Pittsburgh, but the two turnovers from

549
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: Ben Rock. This burger were absolutely crucial and early in

550
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: this game, and the two failed fourth downs that they

551
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: went for, which whether it's on the coaching or it's

552
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 1: on the players, I guess, especially the last one where

553
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: they end up throwing the ball when Levy on Bell

554
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: is having a very good game and they throw the

555
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: ball on fourth and a half a yard like those

556
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: are essentially offensive turnovers. So it to me it's a

557
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: team loss, and they have they had no pass rush,

558
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 1: and that really stood out. And that's why I kind

559
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,120
Speaker 1: of buy into what Tony Romo was selling Saturday night,

560
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,720
Speaker 1: not when well, not when he told us repeatedly, because

561
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: I watched this, um you know, disclaimer on the plane home.

562
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: I was covering the game in Philadelphia, didn't watch the

563
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: game at all, so I watched it on game pass

564
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: on the plane home. He sold for the first quarter

565
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,959
Speaker 1: and a half or so, Oh, this is gonna be

566
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,720
Speaker 1: a great game. I'm telling you, people don't know what

567
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: they're talking about. There's no way the Titans are not

568
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: going to stay in this game because they are not physical.

569
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: And then and then of course it just went away.

570
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: But he also really made the case that he thought

571
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: the Jaguars not only would beat the Steelers, but that

572
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: they were the team that could give the Patriots problems

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00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: because of their unique matchup. And when you look at

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00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,440
Speaker 1: this Steelers defense the way it finished the season without Shazire,

575
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: I kind of buy into that because it's just hard

576
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: for me to see this Steelers defense getting enough stops,

577
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: whereas the Jaguars I think they could. So you're saying

578
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: Tony Romans right about fifty of the time like the

579
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,560
Speaker 1: rest of us. YEA. Ultimately, it wasn't right about the Titans.

580
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: That was really go hard on because it was really

581
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: driving me crazy when I was watching that game. But

582
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: big Ben, um, well, it looked like you you make

583
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: a good point that um the two fourth down calls

584
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: where it's hit, whether it's Haley or Tomlin or Big Ben.

585
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 1: Big Ben's six five to sixty and one play, they

586
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: pitch it to the right for a three yard loss

587
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: and then they try deep cross that doesn't work out,

588
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 1: But still one of my favorite Big Bend games ever

589
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: because it was just so chaotic and wild. I never

590
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 1: Joe Namath. He just not moved though from the Big

591
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: Ben of old could scamper so many crazy throws the

592
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 1: fact that he threw the ball forty three yards on

593
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 1: fourth and five when he could have just run four

594
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: and the game was gonna be over, and Antonio Brown

595
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: makes that play. I mean, this is a class It's

596
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: kind of it really is. I'm sorry to step on

597
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: your point, but just one quick thing is like it

598
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: is kind of a classic Antonio Brown Ben Roethlisberger game

599
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,720
Speaker 1: in the sense that you understood all of their individual

600
00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,600
Speaker 1: brilliance and Levi on Bells too, but ultimately the team

601
00:30:30,680 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: kind of made enough bonehead of plays that it wasn't enough.

602
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: And here's by the way, Big ben Um is gonna

603
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 1: be back next season. He virtually or more or less

604
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 1: confirmed it after the game. Here's what he had to say,

605
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: because as you remember last year, around this time, he

606
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: didn't know if he was going to continue in the NFL.

607
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,760
Speaker 1: I definitely a desire to play football. I love this game.

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00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: I love these guys. Um. Like I said, um Um,

609
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: you hate to lose it. You hate to lose it home. Um.

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00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,720
Speaker 1: I feel bad because I feel like I'll let the

611
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: fan down, my teammates down. Um. And you know the fans,

612
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: we gave them so much to enjoint cheer for this year,

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00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: but to lose this at home. UM, I know that

614
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: a lot of them, not a lot. There'll be some

615
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:13,840
Speaker 1: that say, so, you know, we had a great season,

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00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 1: thanks for the for the ride, but a lot of

617
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: them are disappointed like we are. It wasn't enough. I

618
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 1: have sandwiches on Big Ben retiring, so I'd like to

619
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: have I'd like to ask him to reconsider this line

620
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 1: of thinking for more than one reason. I mean, I

621
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: mean the sandwich is being highly Number one, the fact

622
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: that he'd be out of the a f C North

623
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 1: a deep. He's thirty five years old and all these

624
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are kind of rewriting what's the end of your career,

625
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 1: But you also don't know how many chances and to

626
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: your point, what's going to happen here? Levy on Bell

627
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: is threatening retirement unless he gets a long term contract.

628
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: Don't really buy that. Todd Haley is reportedly going to

629
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 1: be on his way out the offensive coordinator. I don't

630
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: know if that's good or bad. Apparently didn't really get

631
00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: along with Ben Roethlisberger, but they were awfully productive under

632
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 1: Todd Haley. Considering how unpopular Todd Haley apparently was with

633
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: a lot of fans and here, So you're right. I

634
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: think bars in the area not totally popular at least

635
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: one one last aspect of the game, there's more to

636
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: that story. I still haven't heard. It's fine. One more

637
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: aspect of the story of the game we should touch

638
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: on was the decision because he was criticized for it,

639
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: Mike Thimland opting to onside kick it with two minutes

640
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: and about twenty seconds to play and two time outs

641
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: in in his pocket. I think some people said kick

642
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: it deep there he opts to on side kick it,

643
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:33,239
Speaker 1: and it goes worst case scenario because Chris Boswell, who

644
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: wants upon at a time, tried that. What's that call

645
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 1: when you try to kick behind your leg in soccer

646
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: of Vendatta or vendetta with Robano Robano Robano, I think

647
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: got there? Maybe he got there. Uh this time he

648
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: kicks at five yards into his own player and uh

649
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: that puts him at the forty five with the penalty

650
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: for not going ten yards. Then it's at the forty

651
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: and then the defense gives up nine and a half

652
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: yards to set up the Lombo field goal. That ice

653
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: is the game. That's Tomlin, after saying after the game.

654
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: We hadn't stopped him all day. Yeah, we don't think

655
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: that just marched down and they gave up nine and

656
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: a half. You know, they're lucky that they that they

657
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: were able to force Jacksonville to make a field goal

658
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 1: essentially to win the game there because it very well

659
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: could have been a first down and that was a reminder.

660
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: And the Jaguars, you know, we should give them. Their

661
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: fans are loved, they have great fans and this is

662
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: their first a f C Championship game since when and

663
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: and their offensive line, who I was taking shots at

664
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: early and they had an incredible game for net came

665
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: out really strong and for the defensive even though they

666
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: gave up a lot of places, they also made a

667
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 1: lot of plays. So there you go. That's the big

668
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: game uh at Hines Field. And one more note as

669
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: we spin forward, Greg Tom Colin, He's going to do

670
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: a little bit more Tom Brady Legacy record this this

671
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: narrative break out the wrecking Ball because Tommy Coughlin's coming

672
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: up to Foxborough. Yeah. I'm not that upset about when

673
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: they got it. They got a defense, laid an egg

674
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: the way they did. I was bummed because I think

675
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: It would have been fun to see that rematch, but

676
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 1: they played so poorly. Talent wins out, and that is

677
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: the most talented defense we've seen. It's not about their scheme,

678
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: it's not about some hot shot coordinator coming up with

679
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: crazy blitz is. It's just like they are just great

680
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: at every position. And I am I'm already sick. I'm

681
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,880
Speaker 1: sick of this. Coughlin. You know you're gonna have to

682
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: deal with it. Here's the only reason why he's the

683
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: guy that's above the general manager. I mean, he's not

684
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: having a huge impact. He's not the one pick. I mean,

685
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying he didn't have an impact

686
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: on the Jaguars organization this year. I don't think whatever

687
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: Tom Coughlin does in the next week is really something

688
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: that's going to impact this game. How about this. Do

689
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 1: you got to go through the Swiss Cheese a f

690
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 1: C East and now you're gonna get to home games

691
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 1: against the a f C South to get to the

692
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? You could eat a little bit of you know,

693
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 1: I think this is just a little bit of Tom

694
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: Coughlin hype. Sure I can I can eat that. They're

695
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: playing one otherwise you're pretty blessed this postseason. No, they're

696
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: playing one of the great defenses that we've seen and

697
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: they're playing the second best. It's a week here, it's

698
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,720
Speaker 1: in theory, it's a week here in the a f C. Overall,

699
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,040
Speaker 1: I'll definitely agree to that, But they're the second best

700
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: team in the a f C. Who can really argue

701
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: with All I'd say though, is you the New England's

702
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: experience does come in to play. We're gonna talk about

703
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: that too, because Jacksonville they've never been here, not these players,

704
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: not these coaches. So we'll get to all that in

705
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: the upcoming week. Let's now move on to the Saturday games.

706
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: The game that kicked it off another surprise for many people.

707
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:43,240
Speaker 1: The game good royd On Ryan Left, Ryan Rolves, Ryan pumps,

708
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 1: Ryan is throwing it up in the air and come Plaine, Hey,

709
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: come platelet tell um, don't come plat the Eagles take

710
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:58,880
Speaker 1: overall found but circums what Merril Reese w I p

711
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: with the Hall. Yes, the Eagles delivered a last minute

712
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: goal line stand, thwarting a final Falcons play they knew

713
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: was coming, and it's to ten win that advances the

714
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 1: Eagles to their first NFC title games since Stanovan McNabb

715
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,360
Speaker 1: was in town back in the two thousand eight season.

716
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 1: For the Falcons, there will be no atonement for last

717
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: year's Super Bowl collapse, only questions about what happened to

718
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: their offense this season. Getting shut out in the second

719
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: half in the Crucible My god, Greg. The Eagles were

720
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: counted out by the football after losing Carson Wentz. But

721
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 1: their defense and the everlasting power of home field advantage,

722
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: which I think was huge in this game, humbled the doubters. Yeah,

723
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: I think home field was massive, and there are so

724
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: many different ways you can slice up this game because

725
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: I think they were ultimately too evenly matched teams where

726
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: a lot of weird stuff happened. I mean, the Eagles

727
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: fumbled four times. There was a fake hail Mary, there

728
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 1: was a ball off of a knee at um that

729
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:05,359
Speaker 1: falls through that should have been intercepted that and ended

730
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,879
Speaker 1: up being caught, and then then the Eagles score three

731
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: points off of that. There was a blocked punt in

732
00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: this game. I mean, it was it was a strange,

733
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: cold weather, windy game, but ultimately it was down to

734
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: one play and it was It's very rare that going

735
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: into that play everyone knew it was that play, and

736
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,919
Speaker 1: the Eagles even took a time out, and I wrote

737
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: about how my Malcolm Jenkins, that the safety, you know,

738
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: gathered the team together to make sure they understood, like,

739
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: this is the season, this is what we've been doing

740
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: everything since April four. And then when they line up

741
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: for the play, both Jenkins and Rodney McCloud knew what

742
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: was coming, that it was gonna be a sprint right

743
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: where Matt Ryan looked for Julio Jones. They said they

744
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,360
Speaker 1: practiced it three or four times on Thursday, they practiced

745
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: it again at the walkthrough, but you still got to

746
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: execute it. And that came down to Jalen Mills on

747
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and Matt Ryan. I think it's gonna be

748
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: kicking himself for the first down throat to Julio Jones

749
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: with kind of got overlooked where Julio had a one

750
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: on one situation and a better throw there maybe gets

751
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: a touchdown. And then the fourth down play where Julio

752
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: Jones ultimately slips it gets physical, it doesn't happen, and

753
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, like it's hard to read too much

754
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: into it when it's all down to play and I

755
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: don't want to pile on Steve starkeising because he's gotten

756
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: plenty of it this year, but I thought it was

757
00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: a terrible final series by him. I thought, all right,

758
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: first down, that's fine. Uh, that was a good play

759
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: call and a bad throw by Ryan. And I haven't

760
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: heard seen anyone even mentioned that because it was one

761
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 1: on one whatever. I don't know what happened on on

762
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: that little shovel or whatever the hell. That was terrible.

763
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: That Ryan we've been talking about in this playoffs. We

764
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: talked about it last year during his MVP season. He

765
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: is one of the best in the league at surveying

766
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:47,439
Speaker 1: the field looking through his progressions. They basically and they

767
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: mentioned the Eagles talked about this. They cut half the

768
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: field off put him on the run, which is really

769
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: not playing to ryan strengths, and then made it Julio

770
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,800
Speaker 1: Jones or death and Julio Jones He's going to the

771
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, but it's not been one of their

772
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: better red zone end zone guys, So like you kind

773
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 1: of made it Julio or bus there. And I thought

774
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: that Sarkasian had a bad year, The Falcons had a

775
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 1: bad year on offense, and that was kind of symbolic

776
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: for me. And on the flip side, I thought Doug

777
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: Peterson saved the team in the second half with an

778
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: excellent series of game calls in Nick Foles. Was the

779
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: concern around Nick Foles started right away in this game,

780
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: but they say he was finding the second half in

781
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,879
Speaker 1: terms of you're playing around him in general, but too

782
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: clock chewing drives that both field goal drives that I

783
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: thought changed this game. And you look at the box

784
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: score and it doesn't look like Philly got anything done

785
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: on the ground, But in those two drives where they

786
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: they were a couple key runs where they kept they

787
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: kept moving the sticks and their offense you saw little

788
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: hints of that ground game that was dominant in other stages.

789
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: It just wasn't for the full game. But give it

790
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: to Philly for using their strengths to get out of

791
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,439
Speaker 1: this one that I couldn't agree more with everything you said.

792
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: They're starting with Peterson having a real a good game

793
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: play calling, started, the offensive line having an incredible game.

794
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: I think that was probably the number one key for

795
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: the Eagles that falls had no one near him, and

796
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: if you're an NFL quarterback and no one's near you,

797
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: the whole game. And you've got a good play caller

798
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: and a team that's trying to prevent the run, you're

799
00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: gonna make those throws. And Foals missed some throws in

800
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: the first half, but Peterson got him into open receivers

801
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: and that's what that's what coaching is supposed to be.

802
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: I mean, that's Fulls did his job. There were a

803
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 1: couple of plays that he made where he stepped up

804
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: in the pocket and made a nice third down throw.

805
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: I remember on one of the field goal drives and

806
00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 1: the play at the end of the first half, and

807
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 1: a lot of the Eagles in the locker room talked

808
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: about that. They really felt like that was one of

809
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 1: the big plays of the game where Foals hits outside

810
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: Jeffrey on what was a high level throw, probably his

811
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,919
Speaker 1: best throw of the day to hit Jeffrey on about

812
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: a seventeen yard out into the sideline and they hit

813
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: the field goal going into halftime, and that like Foals

814
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:57,400
Speaker 1: did his job. He did not make any big mistakes.

815
00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: Even the near interception was on a play where he

816
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: got hit very quickly in the leg and like, I'm

817
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: not gonna kill him from making that throw. How about

818
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: Nick Falls. I mean, if Chris Wesley was here, he

819
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 1: would bury Falls. And I get that he was he was.

820
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: I mean he started very he was. He was like

821
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: the ten threes and they won. But he did his job.

822
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: But he absolutely did his job. And I think you

823
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:20,959
Speaker 1: guys nailed it with Doug Peterson that they realized what's

824
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 1: gonna work. How do we make this work with Nick Foles?

825
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it works next week against

826
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: the Vikings, but in this case where they were able

827
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 1: to do this run pass option r p O, Now

828
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna start saying like they they're insiders in the league.

829
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: But it was good to learn. And I'll start using

830
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: him as well a lot of r p O and

831
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: don't make them think. Just give him with somebody to

832
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,280
Speaker 1: throw to and hit the throws. It worked this week.

833
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 1: And and the Falcons. We spent a whole week talking

834
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: up their defense. They were fine. They played points, fifteen points,

835
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: they gave up. You need your offense to go in

836
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: there and get the job done, and they just could

837
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: not do it. It's crazy that Falls he threw the

838
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,160
Speaker 1: ball thirty times and had only seven incompletions, and yet

839
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: I remember heated disasters from him, but it was that

840
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: second half of those two field goals drives ate up

841
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: nearly fourteen minutes right well. And there was even the

842
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: first play of the game like that was the perfect

843
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: way for it to start where falls throws it up

844
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: in the air and it was very windy, and I

845
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: do think the win was a huge factor in the game.

846
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 1: And the ball live looked like it got blown backwards

847
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 1: and to the side, but they end up getting a

848
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: fourt yard play on it. Then they fumbled the next one.

849
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 1: But there were there were a lot of those sort

850
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: of moments where things could have gone wrong for foals uh,

851
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 1: and they didn't. But when you have a great line

852
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: like that can cover up a lot of ills. And

853
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: and I just wonder, like there are there are a

854
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 1: few moments in this game where I just wonder what

855
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 1: would have happened if, if, if different decisions were made,

856
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: the first one being Doug Peterson wanted to go for

857
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,240
Speaker 1: it on fourth and one late in the game, before

858
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 1: they kicked the field goal to go up fifteen ten,

859
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: he called the running play. The players in the locker

860
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 1: room confirmed that was gonna be a run to the

861
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: Garrett blund but he took so long making up his

862
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: mind to do it that they ran out of time,

863
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:02,799
Speaker 1: had to take a time out. And then once he

864
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: had all that time, he got in decisive again, still

865
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: couldn't decide, and then decided to go for the field goal.

866
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe they would have picked up the first

867
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: down and maybe they would have won anyways, but I

868
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like those There were so many of

869
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,479
Speaker 1: those little moments back and forth that could have changed.

870
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: I remember on Thursday, I correctly, by the way, called

871
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,919
Speaker 1: it a coin flip game. At least and West both

872
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: picked the Eagles. I believe we did, I mean, although

873
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: with no exceeding confidence, but he did more than Oh

874
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. Forget Oh, I mean I had

875
00:43:34,480 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: during this show, not during yesterday. Actually, I found myself

876
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: and this is how this outside of the four of us.

877
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: I'm not sure any humans truly care about this lock

878
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 1: it up, but I found myself like rooting hard, racking

879
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 1: on Twitter by the way, people care about it, No,

880
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,360
Speaker 1: they do. I was rooting hard for the Eagles because

881
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: of the lock it Up contest. So I did not

882
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 1: forget yesterday, but I forgot during the show. But come on, lindsay, oh,

883
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that was a fortunate for Dan. He's very important.

884
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: We got a trophy hypothetically on the line here. We

885
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: do have a trophy on the line here. Um, I

886
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,839
Speaker 1: have a great I've lost six in a row. I'm

887
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna embrace that chaos and I'm gonna I will

888
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 1: know spoilers, but I got a I got somebody one

889
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: team in mind that the old Zeuster is gonna throw

890
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: his lock behind in the championship weekend. I feel like

891
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick the Patriots that you think you can't put.

892
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: You can't ask me to do a lock off again.

893
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: And at first I want to say, you're gonna pick

894
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, but then I thought about it. No, I'm

895
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,800
Speaker 1: gonna use this evil for good to defeat evil. Before

896
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 1: I let me just say, I meant to say because

897
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: I wish West was here. He's not able to make

898
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: the show. But he did a great right up and

899
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: he had something that really, um, I thought was spot

900
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: on by calling this like a victory out of the

901
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties Bill Parcels game script, which is what it was,

902
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: which was, don't the quarterback is not going to be

903
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: him high flyer. It's not gonna be Dan Marino in

904
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: eight eight. You're gonna have a more Phil Simms Jeff

905
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: Hostetler type attack, danco dunk, take what the defense gives you,

906
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: and then win the game in the trenches, win the

907
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: game on special teams, win the game in time of possession.

908
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: And that's how the Eagles won. I don't think the

909
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: Eagles necessarily, all due respect to the Eagles fans were

910
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,360
Speaker 1: the better team ultimately with Nick Foles involve but I

911
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,440
Speaker 1: think the home field advantage and the fact that they

912
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: coached a better game I think was enough to take

913
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: it home. It's a huge win for a coaching staff

914
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: that was dismissed out of hand by some before the season,

915
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:34,719
Speaker 1: and Jim Schwartz is a big part of that too.

916
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: Nigel Bradham after the game, I was talking about one

917
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,800
Speaker 1: of his sacks, how it was a play they didn't

918
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: it was a blitz they didn't practice all week, hadn't

919
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: done all season, and usually like those are parts of

920
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: their packages. But Schwartz saw something and literally just explained

921
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: it to him during during the game, said hey, I

922
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: want you to do this ends up in a big

923
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: time sack, A very similar really well timed sack by

924
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: the safety McLeod in that game. I think Schwartz had

925
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: a really good game, because I agree, I don't know

926
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: if they were necessarily the better team. And in one

927
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: final thing, just in case we're moving on, I watched

928
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: this game after I got back to the hotel, had

929
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: a drink um, you know, with a good friend Matt Casey,

930
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: look at that football night in America, producer, big shot,

931
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: and then I was back. I couldn't fall safe started

932
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,720
Speaker 1: watching this game, and You're right. The run pass option

933
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: stuff was going crazy, and that's why I was like,

934
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: why is this all over my timeline? But that that's why.

935
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: But I gotta say to the shadowy league figures, Oh

936
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: here we go, there we go. Do you start talking

937
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: about drugs again? No, I work for the NFL. You know,

938
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: Roger Goodell talks about protecting the shield and it was

939
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: probably I think it was three thirty four in the

940
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: morning when I'm watching this, because I don't remember to

941
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning. You gotta look at who you're

942
00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: allowing to provide advertisements on some of these NFL network games.

943
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: They're replaying the game. I'm enjoying the telecast Collinsworth all

944
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:10,439
Speaker 1: this stuff, and I was hit with some pretty risky material,

945
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: very risk ay. I mean, I don't even want to

946
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,479
Speaker 1: say what was going on, but it was. I would

947
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,760
Speaker 1: love to It was crazy about a hint in this climate,

948
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,120
Speaker 1: I don't even want to do well. I think you're

949
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 1: it's an unorthodox move by you. There's a one number

950
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 1: I'll say all. I think you've said enough. I mean,

951
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: whether it's three in the morning or three in the afternoon,

952
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: NFL network is a family Uh, it's family broadcastings. Please

953
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: remember that, so had the phone calls go anyway, there

954
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 1: you go. The Eagles move on, and congrats to Connie Fox,

955
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 1: who um who I texted during the game and she

956
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: was a nervous wreck. That must have been a lot

957
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: of fun. I've never really spent time in Philadelphia, but

958
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: people keep on saying broad Street all the time. So

959
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: I'll just say probably a big party on Broad Street.

960
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: Philly was rocking. I mean people, it was. It was

961
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: can then you know, I got in very late the

962
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,040
Speaker 1: night before, um, you know, because they tried not to

963
00:48:05,040 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: be the worst father ever. Leaving for Philadelphia and my

964
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 1: son's third birthday stretched it out like half they got,

965
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,759
Speaker 1: They're very got, They're very late. Is Daddy ever coming back?

966
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, it was when I arrived there, I mean

967
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 1: it was I think it was one in the morning.

968
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: I mean the whole the city was on fire, on fire,

969
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: and the way I take me on fire. Next weekend,

970
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: I texted John Gonzales along with Colleen as as you did.

971
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: But like Gonzo's future prediction for the Eagles next week,

972
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: not so sunny, but it's always And how about the

973
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: Shadowy speaking the Shadowy League figures, get Colleen wolf a

974
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: credential here. She couldn't even get into the game. She's

975
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: hosting two of your national programs on the weekend. How

976
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 1: about you take some of that I saw some of

977
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:54,040
Speaker 1: that riff raff numbers and get Connie in the Actually

978
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: it's not even it doesn't cost him any money. Just

979
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 1: pick up the phone, don't call the one eight hundred number.

980
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: Call Howie Roseman's assist, Like, hey, just a common courtesy

981
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: to someone laboring on like seven or eight shows for

982
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: the network. How about it? Um? All right, she couldn't

983
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: get in, just been jet lagged into oblivion for the shield.

984
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: All right, let's count down and we gotta we gotta

985
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: talk about the last game, which was actually the second

986
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: game and was also the worst game. Second and goal

987
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 1: to go in Fronkowski, the insight slot receiver left. It's

988
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: a shovel pass to want motion of the It's gonna

989
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: sprint the pilot touchdown, Patriots, that's easiest touchdown past. I

990
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:34,919
Speaker 1: was that you were doing that voice. I was thinking

991
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 1: of jumping in, going like too easy. It's too easy

992
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: every touchdown from Zo, Like, hey, that ain't even make

993
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: it it easy? All right? It's like that seen in

994
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: uh Billy Madison where the o'doyle is like o'doyle rules,

995
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: and then Billy Madison one day after o'doyle puts all

996
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: the manure in the locker. Finally Billy Madison turns to

997
00:49:56,239 --> 00:50:00,280
Speaker 1: the bully and goes o'doyle. I gotta feeling something really

998
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: bad is going to happen to you. That's how I

999
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: feel about Scott Zolak, Freaking Scott Zolak and the rest

1000
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: of the Patriot nation. Anyway, that that can wait, because

1001
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:15,959
Speaker 1: now we have to give you credit. Greiga scored two touchdowns.

1002
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,239
Speaker 1: He is a touchdown machine in the Crucible, and Tom

1003
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: Brady through three thirty seven yards and three touchdowns as

1004
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots rolled over the overmatch Tennessee tight

1005
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: tunes atteen on Saturday night. Yes, we're up to seven

1006
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 1: consecutive I don't care. Come after me on Twitter, Tight

1007
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: Tuons fans all sour. We're up to seven consecutive a

1008
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:45,959
Speaker 1: f C Championship game appearances. On the throne of ease.

1009
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: Believe for them all. Thirty five of those Patriots points,

1010
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 1: by the way, came unanswered after the Titans exit at

1011
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,879
Speaker 1: the first quarter somehow with a seven zero lead. Uh.

1012
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: Great pass from Mariotta to Corey Davis. Tony Romo was

1013
00:50:59,239 --> 00:51:02,240
Speaker 1: feeling himself at that point, as we talked about earlier,

1014
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: But Tennessee's offense was a non factor of the rest

1015
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: of the way. Matt Patricia's defense. Matt Patricia, soon to

1016
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: be the Lions head coach, kept Mariota in the pocket

1017
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: to predictably mundane results, and in true throne of bees

1018
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: uh fashion, Mariota suffered a quad injury in the first

1019
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 1: quarter that apparently limited him and made them change their

1020
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: game plan in the game's final three quarters. But in

1021
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,919
Speaker 1: any event, Oh right tackle Jack Conklin, who's a star,

1022
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: also blew out his knee. I'm sure that, um it

1023
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: was a bummer for the Titans, but at the end

1024
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,359
Speaker 1: of the day, the better team won and uh no one,

1025
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: no one could be surprised because this was on This

1026
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: was not a fair fight, mark No. And it's we

1027
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 1: pointed to New England's weakness of lacking a pass rush

1028
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: and they have eight sacks and you know, their defense

1029
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 1: lets up massive amount they let they let up seven

1030
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: points all day and at what I do I mean

1031
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 1: New England. The reason that I looked up from you know, writing,

1032
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: uh my column or whatever, and saw some Cessler's subtweet

1033
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: about that, like oh wow, yeah, like subtweet, because I

1034
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: I hope they openly disagree with the idea that they're

1035
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: that the defense, like is this big mess they've let

1036
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,360
Speaker 1: let up any team in the league. You said that

1037
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,959
Speaker 1: all year and you're being proven right. I truly believe

1038
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: they're getting better, but getting better. I mean, I just

1039
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,440
Speaker 1: the way that they shape shift on offense, and it's

1040
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: they've they've dealt with a lot of injuries on offense

1041
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,719
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter. I don't mean this in a

1042
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: in a condescending way to the Patriots, but it's like

1043
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: whoever is out, they find someone else to fill in.

1044
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: Danny Amndola, a guy that has been lucky to make

1045
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,719
Speaker 1: this team, having to take pay cuts year after year,

1046
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 1: leads the lead leads give him a pay raise. Eleven catches.

1047
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought that White looked like the Super

1048
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: Bowl version of James White. Brandon Cooks had his plays,

1049
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,759
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski was incredible, Dion Lewis was an utter star

1050
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: last night. They just have so many weapons that if

1051
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: we talk about Jacksonville, they're big. They dealt with it. Today.

1052
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: They gave up forty two points to a team with

1053
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 1: a lot of weapons. They're gonna face another one with

1054
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: just as many next week. Yeah, they they're gonna put

1055
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:08,600
Speaker 1: as much pressure in terms of defending as any team

1056
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: can on that Jagguars defense. And we'll get into that

1057
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: during the week. But the presence of White and Hogan

1058
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:15,399
Speaker 1: sort of slipped under the radar going into the game,

1059
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: and they actually weren't overly productive. White got the two touchdowns,

1060
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: but between the two of them, you know yards, But

1061
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,240
Speaker 1: the difference is that's two more guys who know the system,

1062
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: who know exactly what Tom Brady is thinking, who defenses

1063
00:53:27,680 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 1: have to account for, and it just creates more problems

1064
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: in terms of covering Dion Lewis and Amon Dolan and

1065
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:36,120
Speaker 1: the And it takes the guys off the field like

1066
00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: Philip Dorset or Kenny Britt who is heavily involved late

1067
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 1: in the season. Uh and some of the backup tight ends.

1068
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 1: It takes those guys off the field, and it puts

1069
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:48,160
Speaker 1: on Super Bowl champions who know this offense. And that's

1070
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:50,240
Speaker 1: it's a pretty big deal. Like it's a big difference.

1071
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: And they got a great matchup with the Titans. I

1072
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: think if he played this game ten times, the Patriots

1073
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: are probably gonna win all ten. And that's where I

1074
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: buy into that. They definitely were fortunate, but they in

1075
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,760
Speaker 1: those breaks by winning those regular season games despite the injuries,

1076
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 1: by winning games like they did in Pittsburgh, by by

1077
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: finding a way to get that one seed, and that

1078
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,720
Speaker 1: that's how you get your brown. The Steelers getting robbed

1079
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: on that, Yeah, we'll not forget that. That was that.

1080
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:20,359
Speaker 1: I feel like Steeler should have won the game, and yeah, okay,

1081
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: but my point is they never got to play again,

1082
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:25,800
Speaker 1: obviously because the Steelers blew it today, But that still

1083
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:28,600
Speaker 1: did have a huge effect because today could have been

1084
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: totally different with the Jaguars delivering the performance that we

1085
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: saw today up in Foxboro and this and the Steelers

1086
00:54:34,800 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: and I'm not even gonna entertain. It's like, oh, well

1087
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: the Steelers were you know, they could have getten beat

1088
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: by anybody. Know. The Titans did not belong in this

1089
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 1: round in the playoffs, and maybe they will down the line,

1090
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: although like we said last week, they might have got

1091
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: to get caught in a catch twenty two year now.

1092
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:51,800
Speaker 1: And now as we're hearing reports that Mike Mularkey is

1093
00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: going to get an extension, is that really the best

1094
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: thing to be happening for this organization going forward? Everyone

1095
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: has an opinion, but they just were not. This is

1096
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: not a stage of the Titans mark where anywhere close

1097
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 1: to be ready for you. No, last week's win over

1098
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: the Chiefs was something to build on, and I think

1099
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: that they kind of overshot by suddenly celebrating the coaching

1100
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,439
Speaker 1: staff and making all these pronouncements which wait a week

1101
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: because this was the acid test and it shows you

1102
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,080
Speaker 1: how far they have to go. But it also is

1103
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: like the type of game that the like. It's like, okay, yeah,

1104
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: the Patriots are lucky. They play the Titans. But it's

1105
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: because they never never the Chiefs. They are never the

1106
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 1: team that gives up the twenty one three lead to

1107
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: a bad team. So it's like they it's like, I

1108
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:32,440
Speaker 1: don't know, you kind of can't have it both ways,

1109
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: Like yeah, they beat up on the bad teams, Like

1110
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: that's what you're supposed to. I know a problem with

1111
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 1: New England taking out They can't just stay. It's not

1112
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: their fault. They had to play the Titans. They took

1113
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:43,720
Speaker 1: care of business. They don't they don't stumble. They also,

1114
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots don't tweet like Levi on Bell before the

1115
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: game guaranteeing that they're gonna beat Team X, Y and Z.

1116
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: They're very different organizations out to the Jaguars Twitter handle,

1117
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: by the way, when they caught wind of a player

1118
00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 1: on the Steelers talking about what a war it's gonna

1119
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: be with the pay treo, it's how it doesn't matter

1120
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 1: where the game is played, it's gonna be crazy. And

1121
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: then the Jaguars tweeted something along on the long lines

1122
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: of you could play the Patriots all season, all off

1123
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: season on maddened it's like airplay. Good job they never

1124
00:56:13,239 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 1: got Derrick Henry going the way they did last week.

1125
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: I mean, twenty eight yards of twelve Patriots were committed

1126
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:21,480
Speaker 1: to stop him, and that was there just for all

1127
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: the options that New England has for tom Brady. This

1128
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: is an offense in Tennessee that has a long way

1129
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: to go in terms of adding weapons and making them

1130
00:56:29,760 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: looking more multiple going into next season. They can't do

1131
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 1: this again and they make their their banks. Romo was

1132
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: really strong talking about the difference between a Tom Brady

1133
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 1: audible and basically almost any other audible system in the

1134
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: league that no no other quarterback is at the point

1135
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: it's like having Belichick be a great quarterback. First of all,

1136
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: tom Brady made a lot of great throws in this

1137
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 1: game and was one of his best games of the year,

1138
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 1: So the worry about him falling off forget that. You

1139
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 1: definitely feel better are watching this. He made some great throws,

1140
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: but a lot of it's just mental where he's motioning

1141
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: guys in a no huddle offense and audibly and doing

1142
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: so many sort of next level changes where he changes

1143
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 1: everything about the play because he sees something. It's like

1144
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 1: that Sean McVeigh story where everyone's excited that he's changing

1145
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: the play when he sees it with twenty seconds. Well,

1146
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: except Brady is the guy who is the quarterback and

1147
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: he's changing so many different things and they're kind of

1148
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: next level. And Romo pointed this out in the sense

1149
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: that they went Noel early and it didn't totally work

1150
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: right off the back because they know the Titans only

1151
00:57:34,640 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: have four defensive linement and as the course of the

1152
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: game goes on, the Titans get tired, and those are

1153
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: the types of things other coaching staffs and other quarterbacks

1154
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: as aren't doing. This was Yeah, Brady looked great, very

1155
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: soft landing getting the Titan. Absolutely, I would like to

1156
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: see what Brady is looking like. Uh, if the Jags

1157
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: defense comes to play and he has to move in

1158
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 1: the pocket and takes a couple of shots, it will

1159
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: be That's that's the up shot. Like for me that

1160
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: it if the Jaguars could be on their third string

1161
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: right tackle, Little Adrian Waddle got hurt in this game

1162
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: and he already was their backup sets. But this was

1163
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: perfect and the Patriots they did earn it. They did, yes,

1164
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,479
Speaker 1: get lucky with the Steelers and and and winning that game,

1165
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: but ultimately everything is set up in a way to

1166
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: get the first seed to end up to get a

1167
00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: position where you get the buy and then get a

1168
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: home game, and then if some things work out in

1169
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: your favor, as they often seem to do, you got

1170
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: the Titans. So now you got the Jaguars in your building.

1171
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 1: And we'll say if they go back to the super

1172
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: Bowl first, it's a good setup for him. There's no

1173
00:58:31,360 --> 00:58:34,440
Speaker 1: way around it. For shame Mike Malarkey of crying about

1174
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: the Eric Decker pass interference. I I was. I was

1175
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: vaguely aware of what was going on in this game,

1176
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,080
Speaker 1: and I thought this, you know, I was gonna rewatch it,

1177
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,439
Speaker 1: and it was gonna be some like Titanic call, which

1178
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: like swung the balance of the game. It was seven

1179
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 1: seven in the first quarter and they're on their own

1180
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:53,400
Speaker 1: thirty yard line and it was a touch foul that

1181
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: they probably got wrong. But it happens all the time.

1182
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: There was a million other calls this weekend that were

1183
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: worse than that call. Because everyone hates the Patriots so much,

1184
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,600
Speaker 1: they make a bigger deal. That's very true, and some

1185
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,840
Speaker 1: of the officiating was terrible, all again going to the

1186
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 1: Patriots way, and that gets people annoyed because people are

1187
00:59:10,920 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: sick of the Patriots get it, But watching the game

1188
00:59:14,600 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: at real time is how you watched it. I will

1189
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: say that, so if you're in the moment watching that

1190
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: record play, it felt bigger because it was like it

1191
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: seemed like if they could if they started moving and

1192
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: had a positive drive coming off that Patriots touchdown, they

1193
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,160
Speaker 1: were gonna be maybe okay. But then once that that

1194
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 1: went the other direction, they wouldn't have. At one point

1195
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: the Patriots four first downs like than the than the type.

1196
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: It was a blowout for the of of blowouts, because

1197
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 1: it really when you get to the divisional round playoffs

1198
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:47,120
Speaker 1: and by the start of the fourth quarter, like it's

1199
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: hard to keep your TV on, you know that a

1200
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: game has been dominated. I have to one, it's very

1201
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: similar to the Tebow game, and then the a f

1202
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: C Championship against the Colts had some right. If you're

1203
00:59:56,720 --> 01:00:00,640
Speaker 1: Mike Malarkey, the the the command is self reflection, critiquing

1204
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: the officials going into the Yeah, I agree with you

1205
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:04,479
Speaker 1: A real question. I don't think you're the right person

1206
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: to ask, really, Greg, But I'm wondering if, like, if

1207
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: you're a Patriots fan and say you're years old years old,

1208
01:00:14,160 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: you were born like nineteen. I'm in this range, all right,

1209
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 1: it's a good one for me. You really, do you

1210
01:00:21,120 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: get anything out of these games at this point? These

1211
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: type of playoff games. Do you get any rush from

1212
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: watching or is it kind of the same as watching

1213
01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: some game in November. No, you definitely get it, because

1214
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,560
Speaker 1: if you don't sense it in that building, I can

1215
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: tell you that I think you definitely do because, if anything,

1216
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:39,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs are almost that's all that matters on some levels.

1217
01:00:39,360 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: Just don't get the rest of many regular points. So

1218
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: it's only now that you get it though, because it's

1219
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: not like in weekends. I get that this game was

1220
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: easy and everyone assumed it was gonna be easy, so

1221
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: it's maybe, yeah, it's a little different, but I think

1222
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: you you get something. I mean, you were a Yankees

1223
01:00:53,320 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: fan throughout a pretty dominance and you know what, there

1224
01:00:56,360 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: was never lasted this long. But I can say, like

1225
01:01:00,240 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: as a Yankee fan when they were in their Turn

1226
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: of the Millennium Dynasty era, some of the playoff victories

1227
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 1: and like the lower levels tears, there was less reward

1228
01:01:09,120 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: to it. As a Patriots fans are so Patriots fans

1229
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,960
Speaker 1: are greedy though, like if they if no I don't know,

1230
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: you're right where I don't think I feel the same way.

1231
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:20,960
Speaker 1: But but like if they lose next week, it'll be

1232
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: it'll be like the sky is absolutely falling on them

1233
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:27,720
Speaker 1: in then. Yet and yet they're in such uncharged The

1234
01:01:27,720 --> 01:01:29,520
Speaker 1: thing is they real it really is on Chartered tears.

1235
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: It is They've made seven conference championships since the last

1236
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: time any one of these other three teams that are

1237
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 1: left were in the conference championship. There's never been like

1238
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: an eight teen year run like this. They made twelve

1239
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: out of seventeen. That to me is just as crazy

1240
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: as seventh straight. They made twelve out of seventeen. It

1241
01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: is incredible. Remember how they turned on the team in

1242
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: Week one when they were getting crushed by the Chiefs.

1243
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: I mean, all will take is and this fan base

1244
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: will go nuts on their own. Hey Dan, I cut

1245
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 1: another call from this game just for you, because I

1246
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: know that the radio calls at this point the season

1247
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: are few and far between. The team's dwindled down, so

1248
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 1: Fulton's getting a tamposey on here. This is a great

1249
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,960
Speaker 1: call and it was actually the drive before the touchdown.

1250
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: Are you hitting me with Morrizolac? Oh? Yeah, All right,

1251
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: give me where classic kind of screen ripe for downs

1252
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:23,800
Speaker 1: fixture attack on the twenty five twenty to pick chuck

1253
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: down from me? Hard happened, he's gone too fat? Can

1254
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 1: he run the lights Tony for a touchdown and save

1255
01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: up on the floy asked today, We've seen this before

1256
01:02:35,280 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: with Dion Lewis. Down. He's down, He's down, he's down.

1257
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: Come on, No, we get excited for nothing. It's like

1258
01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 1: I can get excited for nothing. It's like, yeah, it's

1259
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: like making up just a guy that's drunk in the bleachers,

1260
01:02:49,480 --> 01:02:52,160
Speaker 1: like a old fox. Like. It's basically, what if we

1261
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,360
Speaker 1: took a guy that was in the parking lot uh

1262
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: drinking for years and then made him the color guy

1263
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,680
Speaker 1: for the most successful NFL franchise in modern history. Totally

1264
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:08,440
Speaker 1: objective view where there's no question about that. Handsas is

1265
01:03:08,480 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 1: off watching old Tommy Bohannan clips. So I'm here to

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Speaker 1: just for men, could help him out. It helps men

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Speaker 1: look their best so they can celebrate who they are,

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Speaker 1: what they achieve, and how they feel. Who doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to do that? Reducing your gray is as easy as

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Speaker 1: washing your hair with Control g X. You just shampoo

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Speaker 1: it in, you rinse it out, and you move on.

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Speaker 1: And anyone can really figure that out. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you need instructions to use sham pooh, you are in

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Speaker 1: deep trouble. I want our listeners to get off Control

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Speaker 1: g X by using the code around at control g

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Speaker 1: X dot com. That's code around to get off Control

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Speaker 1: g X at control g X dot com. Maybe that's

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Speaker 1: where Handsas is right now, using the offer code around

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Speaker 1: at control g X dot com and get that gray

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Speaker 1: out of your hair. There you go, There you go.

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Speaker 1: That is the divisional round wrap up. What oh what

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Speaker 1: a weekend of games. Only three more games. It's been

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Speaker 1: a great playoffs, unbelievable divisional round. It's a good wild

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Speaker 1: card round and we have three really upstart underdogs. You

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Speaker 1: can really get excited about. Weirdest a f C NFC combination,

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Speaker 1: Uh of games that I can ever remember. Give it

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Speaker 1: to me, Give me weird, give me some weird. This

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Speaker 1: is weird. Yeah, I think so well, the people are

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Speaker 1: gonna be so I'm I'm already tired of hearing like

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Speaker 1: the Keenum, Bordles, Foals and Brady, which one sticks out? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: But three of them have does? Three of them have

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Speaker 1: top five defenses? I mean, the best defensive teams made

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Speaker 1: it into the conference championships ultimately. And the Patriots you'd

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Speaker 1: like to spend the Patriots is underdogs almost every week.

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Speaker 1: Are you're gonna spend this favorite? Right now? They are

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Speaker 1: absolutely favorites. I think the Jaguars are as talented a

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Speaker 1: defense and the whole book on how to beat Brady.

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Speaker 1: They are that book. Man to man, physical coverage, pressure

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Speaker 1: up the middle, being able to get guys get pass

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Speaker 1: rush pressure with four especially on the interior. Like that's

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Speaker 1: describing the Jaguars is the old Giants motto is the

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Speaker 1: model is the way that everyone believes that you beat

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Speaker 1: him the way that the Broncos beat him. So I

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Speaker 1: think it's I'm excited for that game, and it's not

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Speaker 1: as nothing like Tennessee New England. It's completely there's such

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Speaker 1: a weird there. They are such a crazy team that

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Speaker 1: any game the Jaguars are in this season, to me,

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Speaker 1: has been compared. They don't have the special experience and

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Speaker 1: they don't care like they have a total attitude. Like

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Speaker 1: I do. Think there's a little bit of a Tom

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Speaker 1: Coughlin effect there. They were saying that he was going

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Speaker 1: absolutely nuts up in the booth the entire time, absolutely

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Speaker 1: beside himself, even he was next to the reporters. In

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Speaker 1: some stadiums they put the personnel in the press box,

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Speaker 1: which probably drives Tom Coughlin crazy. But our old friend

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Speaker 1: Jeff Darlington was tweeting about that Coughlin was banging out

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Speaker 1: expletives while the Jaguars were up twenty one nothing, just

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Speaker 1: burying the Jaguars guy forgotten by the Giants. He's back.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to make my lock pick this week.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. This is Dan Hands signing off for

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Speaker 1: or not locking you off on that one. The old

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Speaker 1: boss behind the Glass. Tuesday se