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Speaker 1: Rams and Cardinals. Super Wildcard Weekend? Reet, Brian, did you
Speaker 1: enjoy Super Wildcard Weekend? From a couple of different perspectives,
Speaker 1: from just being able to sit back, watch and see
Speaker 1: the other teams scrap it out hundred percent? Yes, really
Speaker 1: enjoyed that, and just to kind of see it unfold
Speaker 1: for whatever's going to happen with the Titans, which we
Speaker 1: now know. Aby Wells, did you watch all five games
Speaker 1: to this point? I did watch all five games. I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed just kind of posting up on the couch
Speaker 1: and watching all the football unfold and knowing that none
Speaker 1: of it could hurt me because the Titans didn't play
Speaker 1: until the next week. It was great. Well, here's what
Speaker 1: we know. The Titans will play on Saturday Saturday at
Speaker 1: three thirty Central against the Cincinnati Bengals. As the seeds
Speaker 1: all hold in the AFC one, the Titans have a bye.
Speaker 1: The four seed is Cincinnati. That game again three thirty Saturday,
Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium. We're on the air with Titans countdown at
Speaker 1: two Central. Retinamy will have that for you. So let's
Speaker 1: take a look at Saturday's opponent, the Cincinnati Bengals. After
Speaker 1: going two and fourteen and twenty nineteen and then four
Speaker 1: eleven and one in twenty twenty, Cincinnati is eleven and
Speaker 1: seven this season under third year coach Sack Taylor. They are,
Speaker 1: as mentioned, the number four seed. They get here by
Speaker 1: beating the Raiders twenty six to nineteen in the first
Speaker 1: AFC Wildcard game. Joe Burrow through for two hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four yards two touchdowns, Jamar Chase nine catches for
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixteen yards. Joe Mixon seventeen rushes for
Speaker 1: forty eight yards. On defense, Jermaine Pratt had the interception
Speaker 1: that sealed the game. On Las Vegas final offensive play,
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson forced to fumble as he sacked Derek Carr
Speaker 1: that set up a Cincinnati's scoring opportunity. Overall, the Bengals
Speaker 1: sat car three times. Evan McPherson made four field goals,
Speaker 1: the longest coming from forty three yards. Cincinnati the AFC
Speaker 1: North champion for the first time since twenty fifteen. They
Speaker 1: won the division in week seventeen with a thirty four
Speaker 1: to thirty one victory over Kansas City, and then in
Speaker 1: week eighteen they rested twenty of twenty two starters in
Speaker 1: the season finale at Cleveland. The Bengals lost that game
Speaker 1: twenty one to sixteen, and that snapped a three game
Speaker 1: winning stream. Over the course of the season, Cincinnati has
Speaker 1: been really good to be Kansas City, they beat Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and Baltimore twice, but they also lost to Chicago and
Speaker 1: the New York Jet. So Andy Wells, I start with you.
Speaker 1: You hear the background the resume overall of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: Are they a big surprise? I think on paper when
Speaker 1: you go through their resume, the success that they've had
Speaker 1: this year has been surprising. It's not very often you
Speaker 1: see teams go from two and fourteen, four and eleven
Speaker 1: and one to all of a sudden being eleven and seven.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty substantial jump, and I think a lot
Speaker 1: of that is the Joe Burrow effect. I think that
Speaker 1: as this twenty twenty one season has gone on, we've
Speaker 1: seen a team kind of find their idea entity behind
Speaker 1: this quarterback Joe Burrow. We've seen them really find how
Speaker 1: their offense clicks and what pieces parts fit in the
Speaker 1: right spot to really make them the most effective. And
Speaker 1: I think we all started to realize that this team
Speaker 1: was picking up smoke when they were they were beating
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and then they beat the Steelers, and then
Speaker 1: they beat them again, and then you know, they start
Speaker 1: to get these wins and all of a sudden you're thinking, oh, well,
Speaker 1: this might be an actual team. And they just kept
Speaker 1: going and kept going and kept grinding, and all along
Speaker 1: the way we've seen Joe Burrow get better and better
Speaker 1: and more consistent and make more plays. And so I
Speaker 1: think on paper, yes, it's surprising, but if you've watched
Speaker 1: them all season long, you're not surprised that they're in
Speaker 1: the position that they're in right now. Right, Mike, I
Speaker 1: agree with Amy. This team throughout the season, you've noticed
Speaker 1: the kind of done them growing up together, including their
Speaker 1: head coach Zach who, in there his postgame victory speech
Speaker 1: thanked owner Mike Brown for being patient with them, and
Speaker 1: they have kind of acquiesced and learned how to do
Speaker 1: all this together. And Amy's right to see some of
Speaker 1: the winds that they've notched. And they've done a lot
Speaker 1: of good things at home, and that's one of the
Speaker 1: big reasons why I think they won the AFC North
Speaker 1: Division for the first time since twenty fifteen. But they've
Speaker 1: kind of grown up together. But they have a lot
Speaker 1: of youth and a lot of important places. And Amy
Speaker 1: is also right about one thing. Joe Burrow the catalyst
Speaker 1: to all of it. All right, Rett, take us through
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati offensive breakdown, if you would please, yes, sir.
Speaker 1: The aforementioned Joe Burrow led the NFL by completing seventy
Speaker 1: point four percent of his passes his passer rating one
Speaker 1: O eight point three through for thirty four touchdowns, fifteen
Speaker 1: of those coming from thirty yards or longer. He's backed
Speaker 1: up by journeyman Brandon Allen, who started the Week eighteen
Speaker 1: game at Cleveland, who went fifteen of twenty nine for
Speaker 1: one hundred thirty six yards and a touchdown while taking
Speaker 1: four quarterback sacks. Running Back Joe Mixon made his first
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl coming back from an injury plague twenty twenty
Speaker 1: season with twelve hundred five yards rushing, three hundred fourteen
Speaker 1: receiving yards, sixteen total touchdowns, and his backup is the
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pound veterans and MOJ. P. Ryan,
Speaker 1: who is used on third downs in many situations. Twenty
Speaker 1: one year old wide receiver and rookie Jamaar Chase caught
Speaker 1: a one passes for fourteen hundred fifty five yards thirteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Chase has five one hundred yard receiving games, two games
Speaker 1: of two hundred yards or more, including two hundred sixty
Speaker 1: six against the Kansas City Chiefs on January second. He
Speaker 1: was also named to the Pro Bowl. Okridge native t
Speaker 1: Higgins will turn twenty three years old this week. He
Speaker 1: also had over one thousand yards receiving on seventy four
Speaker 1: catches with six touch years ago. With that, the Bengals
Speaker 1: are the first team in NFL history with a four
Speaker 1: thousand yard passer, a one thousand yard rusher, and two
Speaker 1: one thousand yard receivers all under the age of twenty six.
Speaker 1: The Bengals also have veteran tighter by wide receiver who
Speaker 1: were posted sixty seven catches tight end cj Uzoma. He
Speaker 1: had forty nine catches, nearly five hundred yards and five touchdowns. Overall,
Speaker 1: Cincinnati average three hundred sixty two yards per game, one
Speaker 1: hundred three rushing on the ground, two hundred fifty nine
Speaker 1: yards passing A good red zone team. They scored thirty
Speaker 1: one touchdowns in fifty two trips inside opponents twenty yard line,
Speaker 1: and the Bengals average twenty seven points per game. They're
Speaker 1: also one of the best teams in the NFL at
Speaker 1: scoring at the end of the first half sixty three
Speaker 1: points there and also on the first drive of the
Speaker 1: second half with fifty five points. They're one achilles heel.
Speaker 1: Though on offense, Mike, they've allowed fifty five quarterback sacks. Aby,
Speaker 1: how good is this Bengals offense? Well, I think Rhet
Speaker 1: just gave you a lot of good numbers. And the
Speaker 1: thing about them that's so intriguing is not only that
Speaker 1: they're good right now, but they are set up to
Speaker 1: be good in the future. With so much youth on
Speaker 1: this team. This guy's really the limit for this offense.
Speaker 1: But I mean, when you listen to Rhet go through
Speaker 1: kind of the thumbnail on this offense. You hear names
Speaker 1: like Joe Mix and Jamar, Chase te Higgins, Tyler Boyd.
Speaker 1: You're watching the game and you think, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: they play for the Bengals too. Oh my gosh, he
Speaker 1: plays for the Bengals too. It's all of these names
Speaker 1: that if you're playing on fantasy, you want all of
Speaker 1: these guys on your team, and the Bengals have them
Speaker 1: in real life on their offense. So I think that
Speaker 1: there are so many different options of things that this
Speaker 1: offense is able to do, led by Joe Burrow, who
Speaker 1: is able to use them all just so expertly, and
Speaker 1: he has just grown into that position of being that leader.
Speaker 1: These guys like playing for him, they like being around him.
Speaker 1: He's kind of a funny dude who has really kind
Speaker 1: of race kind of the position of being the quarterback
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati, but in his very own style, so he's
Speaker 1: not trying to be someone that he's not. And I
Speaker 1: think that that has worked really well with a lot
Speaker 1: of potential star power on one offense, and they've drafted
Speaker 1: all those guys, right, That's what the key is. They
Speaker 1: have taken advantage of the fact that after Marvin Lewis
Speaker 1: left they were bad after being pretty good for a
Speaker 1: long stretch of time. As a matter of fact, the
Speaker 1: part of Lewis's the head coach. But they have drafted
Speaker 1: these guys and in doing so they have hit on
Speaker 1: all these draft picks. They have taken advantage of the
Speaker 1: fact that if you are bad, you get to pick
Speaker 1: high in every round. And they have gone and played
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow at number one overall in twenty twenty, and
Speaker 1: then t Higgins going at number thirty three and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty Jamar Chase at number five in this year's draft.
Speaker 1: I mean, and on and on and on. They have
Speaker 1: done a good job picking players. And then Uzamba to
Speaker 1: tight end was with him in twenty fifteen. He was
Speaker 1: a draft pick and has developed into a really good player.
Speaker 1: So all those draft picks and not having to go
Speaker 1: out and spend money on free agents, that enables you
Speaker 1: to build a great nucleus, which they have. So the question,
Speaker 1: Amy is what about the Bengals defense. Well, Mike, Cincinnati
Speaker 1: allowed their opponents just twenty two points and three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one yards per game, one hundred and three
Speaker 1: rushing and two hundred and forty eight passing. The Bengals
Speaker 1: gave up thirty two touchdowns on fifty three opponents red
Speaker 1: zone trips. Opponents converted about forty two percent of their
Speaker 1: third down conversions, but the Bengals are excellent at stopping
Speaker 1: opponents on fourth down, allowing just seven successful conversions in
Speaker 1: eighteen attempts. Like the Rights, the Bengals have forty two
Speaker 1: quarterback sacks, led by Trey Hendrickson's fourteen sacks. He had
Speaker 1: at least half a sack in eleven straight games this season.
Speaker 1: Hendrickson was a big free agent signing from the Saints,
Speaker 1: where he had thirteen point five sacks last season. Hendrickson
Speaker 1: didn't just get a new contract from the Bengals, he
Speaker 1: also made his first Pro Bowl in twenty twenty one. Now,
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard might be even better at the opposite defensive end,
Speaker 1: as he is a superior run defender with sixty two
Speaker 1: tackles and has seven point five sacks himself. The Bengals
Speaker 1: have several talented interior defensive linemen, including former Brown's Larry
Speaker 1: Ogan job They sustained several defensive line injuries, and Saturday's
Speaker 1: win over Las Vegas, Ogan Joby suffering a foot injury
Speaker 1: second year. Linebacker Logan Wilson leads the team in both
Speaker 1: tackles with ninety eight interceptions with four The men who
Speaker 1: saved the game for Cincinnati on Sunday, Jermaine Pratt is
Speaker 1: another versatile, high intensity linebacker, and then in the secondary,
Speaker 1: reliable safety's Bonbbell and Jesse Bates are two of their
Speaker 1: defensive leading tacklers. Shadobi, a woozy, came over from Dallas
Speaker 1: and has played great at quarterback. Former Steeler Mike Hilton
Speaker 1: is one of the best nickelbacks in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: So let's talk ret. The defense has been put together
Speaker 1: in a different way. They've gone and spent money there
Speaker 1: in free agency, and it feels like it's money well
Speaker 1: spent for Lou and Rumo's unit well. And one of
Speaker 1: the first moves they made in the offseason, Mike was
Speaker 1: going and plucking away the aforementioned Mike Hilton, the former
Speaker 1: Steeler who has had a very nice gear for them,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those veterans that you bring in
Speaker 1: to help kind of set a tone to go with
Speaker 1: a guy all as Sam Hubbard, who was a a
Speaker 1: draft pick of their own back in twenty eighteen out
Speaker 1: of Ohio State. But yeah, they found some really nice
Speaker 1: players to put in all three levels. The thing is is, Mike,
Speaker 1: they're little linked up going into this matchup against the Titans,
Speaker 1: and especially at the defensive tackle spot. Larry Ogunjobi has
Speaker 1: a foot injury, Mike Daniels has a groin injury. Trey Hendrickson,
Speaker 1: as Amy mentioned their leading socker as in concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that jury report looks like later this week.
Speaker 1: But those guys have really done a nice job and
Speaker 1: certainly is one of the reasons why they got to
Speaker 1: eleven wins this year. All right, let's talk Cincinnati Special
Speaker 1: Team's thirteen year punter Kevin Huber is basically Cincinnati's Brett
Speaker 1: Curry's steady and great at penning opponents inside the twenty.
Speaker 1: The rookie kicker Evan McPherson has blasted nine field goals
Speaker 1: from fifty yards or longer after being drafted out of Florida.
Speaker 1: They're long snapper Clark Harris, one of the league's best biggles,
Speaker 1: were earned game unspectacular. They've used four different punt returners
Speaker 1: seven different kickoff returners this season. Their coverage units average
Speaker 1: okay A couple other notes. The Bengals were number one
Speaker 1: in the NFL in penalty yards, and I mean that
Speaker 1: in a good way, not the Raiders way. They average
Speaker 1: just thirty seven penalty yards per game and they were
Speaker 1: hit with only four penalties on average per contest. Really
Speaker 1: really good in that area. Cincinnati's turnover ratio zero twenty
Speaker 1: one turnovers, twenty one takeaway so that's a flat line zero. Now,
Speaker 1: these two teams played on November first, twenty twenty, in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and that weekend was not great for the Titans except
Speaker 1: Amy Wells got engaged that week. But that's actually Friday
Speaker 1: was good, right, Amy, But Sunday not so good. I
Speaker 1: had a great stake on Friday, I really did. The
Speaker 1: Titans played poorly in a thirty one to twenty loss
Speaker 1: to the Bengals. Tennessee was especially bad on defense. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow through for two hundred forty nine yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: The Titans didn't sack Burn, the Bengals rushed for one
Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen yards, and Joe Mixon didn't even play
Speaker 1: in that game. Cincinnati converted ten to fifteen third down
Speaker 1: attempts and their only fourth down attempt Bengals kept them
Speaker 1: all for nearly thirty six minutes and scored touchdowns on
Speaker 1: four of their five red zone possessions. Now, this is
Speaker 1: really amazing. Tennessee gained four hundred forty one yards in
Speaker 1: that game, but taking out the final kneel down. Basically
Speaker 1: at the end, the Titans had only eight offensive possessions
Speaker 1: in this game. That meant that every missed opportunity was problematic.
Speaker 1: Stephen Gaskowski missed a field goal. Ryan Tannehill was intercepted
Speaker 1: by Jesse Bates. Titans had punt three times. It doesn't
Speaker 1: sound so bad, but when you only have the ball
Speaker 1: eight times, the math simply does not work. Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: eighteen carries for one hundred and twelve yards. Titans gained
Speaker 1: two eighteen on the ground on just twenty nine rushes.
Speaker 1: Tannehill through for two thirty three and two touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: yet the Titans lose the ball game. Aj Brown probably
Speaker 1: going to be motivated for this game. In the game
Speaker 1: last year on November first, he caught four passes for
Speaker 1: twenty four yards. So, Amy, what do you remember about
Speaker 1: that day in Cincinnati from fourteen and a half months ago?
Speaker 1: As I read those numbers. Well, I remember being cold.
Speaker 1: That's a sideline reporter thing to remember, but it was
Speaker 1: like abnormally cold. I remember that there was a little
Speaker 1: bit of panic. Panic seems like a lot in retrospect,
Speaker 1: but there was a little concern because you have to
Speaker 1: remember where the Titans were when they played the Bengals
Speaker 1: that game. They had started that season five and oh
Speaker 1: lost to the Steelers at home in a close game,
Speaker 1: then went on the road thinking the Bengals are a shoeing.
Speaker 1: The Bengals were a one win team. They had to
Speaker 1: win and they had to tie and that was it.
Speaker 1: And so they're thinking, oh, we'll get back on our
Speaker 1: feet against the Bengals. Everything will be fine, this is okay,
Speaker 1: and then the Titans get shocked and end up losing
Speaker 1: that game. So there was a little bit of alarm
Speaker 1: bells going off across the fan base. I remember, because
Speaker 1: it was one of those games that Mike you, I
Speaker 1: mean you said it. There were missed opportunities. Overall, not
Speaker 1: a terrible game by the Tennessee Titans, but opportunities that
Speaker 1: really mattered were not taking advantage of. And so people
Speaker 1: started to say, well, what's happening to this Titans team.
Speaker 1: That's what I remember about this game. But I had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to talk to some guys, you know, just
Speaker 1: because we knew that some of these games could be
Speaker 1: coming up, and so you're talking about all the different
Speaker 1: possibilities and everything. And I had mentioned to someone, you know,
Speaker 1: do you really look at a game that happened a
Speaker 1: year ago. I mean, there's been so much turnover on
Speaker 1: this Titans team. And he said yes, and no, I
Speaker 1: mean you look and see what they did. You look
Speaker 1: and see what we did. But they've had turnover, we
Speaker 1: had turnover. They're both different teams. So I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see what's going to happen this week. I'm very excited.
Speaker 1: But Rhett, it has to be advantageous to the Titans.
Speaker 1: At A. They have played against Joe Burrow. B. They
Speaker 1: have played against Zach Taylor and his offense, and see
Speaker 1: they got to sit back and watch that this weekend.
Speaker 1: All of those are very valid points, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll pull out some tape from that game in November
Speaker 1: first of twenty twenty to reference. In terms of Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow's passing ability, the big thing that they didn't have
Speaker 1: back then is Jamar Chase. We talked about him fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five yards and all those touchdowns as
Speaker 1: a rook and he is just throw it up and
Speaker 1: go get it. I mean, he's something else in this thing.
Speaker 1: The thing I remember about that game in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: is how they had a makeshift offensive line. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say Joe Burrow had already been sacked thirty
Speaker 1: or forty times at that point, and how the Titans
Speaker 1: defense was unable to get to him. No quarterback sacks
Speaker 1: that day. And I think it's going to be a
Speaker 1: much different story because you have Jeffrey Simmons second team
Speaker 1: All Pro now just finishing up year three and leading
Speaker 1: this defense up front with Denico Autry who had a
Speaker 1: great year to go with it, Harold Landry who had
Speaker 1: a lights out year. Bud Dupree is now back and healthy,
Speaker 1: and that allows Kevin Byard back there to do things
Speaker 1: the way he's been needing to do them and get
Speaker 1: a first team All Pro selection. So I'm very much
Speaker 1: looking forward to Shane Bowen's defense against this high powered offense.
Speaker 1: That's one of the big big matchups going into this
Speaker 1: I'm very much looking forward to this game. Well, if
Speaker 1: you want an example a of what the Titans defensive
Speaker 1: problems were in twenty that game was in off the
Speaker 1: field on third down, not able to sack the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's why they did all these things in the offseason
Speaker 1: to change it up. And so we'll see what are
Speaker 1: the differences in terms of how they approach this going
Speaker 1: against the Cincinnati Bengal team that's one of the youngest
Speaker 1: teams in the league and just doesn't care. They don't care,
Speaker 1: They're not scared. When do they have to be scared of? Now?
Speaker 1: They have plenty of moxie. You're right. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: got they've got swagger, and it starts with Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: I mean that guy. He's you know, you see his
Speaker 1: pictures of him sitting in the locker room and smoking cigars,
Speaker 1: you know, like he did at LSU after the point
Speaker 1: of the National Championship game, and it just kind of
Speaker 1: emanates from him. M Yeah, I don't think they're scared
Speaker 1: of anything. All right, let's get some weekend playoff thoughts.
Speaker 1: San Francisco twenty three, Dallas seventeen. Ret. Brian, you go first, Well,
Speaker 1: it's this simple. San Francisco forty now just came out
Speaker 1: like a ball of fire. I mean, Deebo Samuel did
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel things. I mean, that guy. It's unbelievable what
Speaker 1: they've done with him at the running back position. And
Speaker 1: it was really out of kind of necessity, as Elijah Mitchell,
Speaker 1: the rookie from Louisiana Lafayette, had some injury concerns throughout
Speaker 1: the year, and they immediately went right down through a
Speaker 1: dagger done there, seven to nothing and then you know
Speaker 1: here they go from there, and you know, Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and this Cowboys offense just never could get anything going.
Speaker 1: I don't did ceedee lamb ever end up with a
Speaker 1: catching that game, because I don't, at one point deep
Speaker 1: into it, he didn't even have one. But if he did,
Speaker 1: it wasn't much. It wasn't even as close as what
Speaker 1: it appeared to me on the scoreboard. Did you enjoy
Speaker 1: this one? I did enjoy this one. It was a
Speaker 1: game that I enjoyed in the last probably three minutes,
Speaker 1: because it got really exciting there at the end. I mean,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott's trying to do some of the things that
Speaker 1: we've seen him do before, which is just throw it
Speaker 1: up there. Let someone go get it and score some points.
Speaker 1: And I mean they were moving that ball for a
Speaker 1: while and it was getting really excited. And there was
Speaker 1: a minute a minute where I thought, Dallas is gonna
Speaker 1: do this. They're gonna come back and they're gonna score,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be the ball game, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a walk off and Tony Romo is gonna just
Speaker 1: fly out of the booth. I mean, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be crazy. But I mean, ultimately, they couldn't get out
Speaker 1: of their own way. They couldn't they couldn't get the
Speaker 1: job done. And that's kind of the story for Dallas
Speaker 1: as of late. Yeah, for the last twenty something years,
Speaker 1: recent memory. Yeah, unfortunately for the Cowboys. I mean it continues.
Speaker 1: Read how good were Jim Nanson Tony Romo on the telecast?
Speaker 1: You know? I mean they're the number one team for
Speaker 1: a reason on CBS, and the chemistry they've got together
Speaker 1: is really good. Anyway, Just the thing about Tony, you
Speaker 1: could tell he was just feeling so much for his
Speaker 1: old team and want to get them over the top,
Speaker 1: and it just didn't happen. But there's certainly certainly a
Speaker 1: reason why they are the number one team for CBS
Speaker 1: on television. Good stuff. I love listening to them together
Speaker 1: and in those final moments. I mean, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought their reaction to the last play was just perfect.
Speaker 1: They were kind of like everybody else what just happened? Yeah,
Speaker 1: why would they do that? Yeah? They bring a human
Speaker 1: element to it, and that's a perfect example. All right.
Speaker 1: So I want to know, Amy, how much of the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay thirty one to fifteen went over Philly? Did
Speaker 1: you watch? I'll be honest, Mike, I didn't watch the
Speaker 1: entire game. I'm just gonna lay it out here for
Speaker 1: the OT people. I realized what was happening pretty early,
Speaker 1: and you know, I got some stuff done around the house.
Speaker 1: But I think we can all agree that Tom Brady
Speaker 1: is still good. He's still playing, all right, And I
Speaker 1: was surprised he was in the game as long as
Speaker 1: he was. I kind of thought that once this one
Speaker 1: was fully in hand, that maybe Tom Brady would sit
Speaker 1: a couple out. But that is not the Tom Brady way.
Speaker 1: And I mean, great game by Tampa Bay. They were
Speaker 1: dominant from the very beginning. There was really no question
Speaker 1: of who was in charge of that game at any
Speaker 1: point in time. So yeah, I didn't watch the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I'll be straight with the OT people. I'm not too proud.
Speaker 1: I think he was the most predictable result of the
Speaker 1: entire weekend. Yeah, I agree with that. I watched part
Speaker 1: of it and I was like, this is just dull,
Speaker 1: and Troy Aikman sounded like he felt that way, and
Speaker 1: then he certainly said it was disappointed they weren't doing
Speaker 1: San Francisco and Ballance Bred. He said it was three time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did not hide any disinterest in that whole deal.
Speaker 1: And sadly for anybody who's an Eagles fans, Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: never was able to get anything running with his legs.
Speaker 1: They weren't able to start working in the RPO off
Speaker 1: of any of that Tampa based defense wouldn't have any
Speaker 1: of that. And really it's a sidebar out of this.
Speaker 1: This will begin the conversation about the Philadelphia Eagles going forward,
Speaker 1: because Mike, they're the team that has three number one picks,
Speaker 1: picks fifteen, sixteen, and nineteen in the first round of
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two draft, and you wonder, are they
Speaker 1: the ones that pull the trigger and make the trade
Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson to upgrade at that position. Well, it's
Speaker 1: going to be a conversation of topic. Yeah. The only
Speaker 1: thing about that is will Deshaun Watson be willing to
Speaker 1: go there and wave it's no trade clause? That is correct,
Speaker 1: because the only other part of that is if that's
Speaker 1: what the Texans still want, they can get it from
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, but can you imagine how the press
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia is going to be about Deshaun Watson after
Speaker 1: what his situation has been. Yeah, it's the only way
Speaker 1: it would be worse is if he went to New York.
Speaker 1: That's the way I'll answer that. But yeah, that that
Speaker 1: game was very predictable. Tom Brady and crew just keep
Speaker 1: trucking and right along, and so here they go into
Speaker 1: the divisional round. Here's what wasn't predictable, Buffalo forty seven,
Speaker 1: New England's seventeen rat Can you ever remember a playoff
Speaker 1: game that was supposed to be competitive? This just being
Speaker 1: such a landslide. I've never seen a playoff game with
Speaker 1: dominance the way this was. It's not just Mac Jones
Speaker 1: throwing two interceptions and them losing that battle. Buffalo had
Speaker 1: the equivalent of a Major League Baseball pitcher pitching a
Speaker 1: perfect game. I mean they did everything right everything. I mean,
Speaker 1: why don't they score the first seven possessions? They never punted,
Speaker 1: I mean, they just had no penalties. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: I've never seen another game like it, and on a
Speaker 1: level you know of play where we have, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the wild card weekend, and I guess it was
Speaker 1: just a massive, massive do over for them for what
Speaker 1: they had. And what was that week eleven and that
Speaker 1: snow Dome snow Globe game where you know, the Patriots
Speaker 1: just ran all over them for two hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: two yards on the ground and you know, Mac Jones
Speaker 1: complete three passes and they win it. I think they
Speaker 1: were just so over that they wanted to blow it
Speaker 1: out and buy George. They did it, they enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: I was a little disappointed that it wasn't more competitive,
Speaker 1: just because on paper, these two teams seem pretty equally
Speaker 1: matched there, I mean division rivals, so they know everything
Speaker 1: about each other, Like this is this could be like
Speaker 1: a real tip for tat game. It's freezing cold, it's
Speaker 1: like four degrees, like this is playoff football. This could
Speaker 1: be phenomenal. And then Buffalo just came in and said, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. We're not interested in even entertaining the fact
Speaker 1: that New England is here. We're just gonna win this
Speaker 1: game and let you guys go home. Like it was
Speaker 1: really a dominant from the very beginning. They played it
Speaker 1: like it was a homecoming game. Oh yeah, they played
Speaker 1: it like they had like New England was like Northeastern State,
Speaker 1: Like I don't care. Yeah, yeah, okay. So Kansas City
Speaker 1: beats Pittsburgh forty two twenty one, and it was a
Speaker 1: game for a while, and then Pedrick Mahomes started going crazy.
Speaker 1: So now Kansas City will host Buffalo this coming Sunday.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you, this ain't Is that a
Speaker 1: best case scenario potentially for the Titans, that these two
Speaker 1: teams and we're not putting the car ahead of the horse.
Speaker 1: But if you're the Titans, don't you want these two
Speaker 1: teams to have a massive slug fest on Sunday. I
Speaker 1: want these two teams to just beat the ever loving
Speaker 1: daylight side of each other, like I want them to
Speaker 1: just I want it to be dirty, and I want
Speaker 1: it to be one of those in the trenches games
Speaker 1: where everybody's covered in mud for no reason, Like this
Speaker 1: is the kind of game that I want to have,
Speaker 1: like people are bleeding, but really I mean Buffalo New
Speaker 1: England game, then having Buffalo have to go to Kansas
Speaker 1: City and potentially just dog fight for their life. I
Speaker 1: think that whoever is facing them after that going to
Speaker 1: get a pretty mangled team out of whoever wins. I
Speaker 1: think that that's going to be a game that's gonna
Speaker 1: be wooed. Just so much fun to watch, but just
Speaker 1: an absolute monster to play. Wait think Rit's it should
Speaker 1: be a really really entertaining game, and I'm everything that
Speaker 1: Amy said about the physicality of it. Whoever comes to Nashville,
Speaker 1: I want them to be binged up, beaten, battered. And
Speaker 1: let me say, you know the amazing thing about that
Speaker 1: that game with them in Pittsburgh is here's the Chiefs
Speaker 1: did not have Clyde Edwards Hilaire. I think he was
Speaker 1: out with a shoulder if I'm not mistaken, And so
Speaker 1: here they have Jerick McKinnon, the former Viking and forty
Speaker 1: nine er. They elevate from the practice squad and he
Speaker 1: just absolutely takes over. Yes, Tyreek Hill does his things
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes slings it around the yard. Travis Kelsey's there,
Speaker 1: but Jerick McKinnon was a really big difference maker in
Speaker 1: this game, and I had well over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: from scrimmage, and he will be an interesting asset for
Speaker 1: them going forward. I like Buffalo's chances going into Arrowhead.
Speaker 1: I know that's a tough place to play, but if
Speaker 1: there's a team that can hang with them, Buffalo, I
Speaker 1: think is one of those that can do it, provided
Speaker 1: that Tyler Bass doesn't have a problem putting it through
Speaker 1: the uprights if they need those kinds of things. Marik
Speaker 1: Cardinals against the Rams to see who gets to go
Speaker 1: to Tampa next weekend. Who you got rit I got
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles for Rams. I don't have a great
Speaker 1: feeling about the Arizona Cardinals. They lost four out of
Speaker 1: their last five, and we know that DeAndre Hopkins had
Speaker 1: an MCL that he had to have surgically repaired back
Speaker 1: in the middle of December. There's no word as so
Speaker 1: whether he's coming back or not. We hear that JJ
Speaker 1: Watt will be back for them. On defense, I think
Speaker 1: that that Kyler Murray is really going to miss DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins as a target. I know they have other weapons,
Speaker 1: but I just didn't like the way they literally limped
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, and that's why I like because it's
Speaker 1: a home game for the Rams. I think that. I
Speaker 1: think the Rams come out and take care of business.
Speaker 1: Wait think am I agree with Rhett? I think the
Speaker 1: Rams are going to get this one all the way.
Speaker 1: I just I don't see Kyler Murray and the whole Cardinals,
Speaker 1: especially Cardinals offense, kind of getting back to what they
Speaker 1: were at the beginning of the regular season. They really
Speaker 1: lost their way somewhere around the midpoint of the season
Speaker 1: and never really found that same mojo. Again. We've seen
Speaker 1: the Rams go up and down as well, so I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that they are far and away the superior
Speaker 1: team here, but I think that the Rams find a
Speaker 1: way to get it done at home, and the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have some recoiling or whatever people say of the roster
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Speaker 1: starting today Monday, we have something that the Titans are
Speaker 1: trying to do to sort of kick off this week
Speaker 1: of playoff football and trying to help the American Red
Speaker 1: Cross in the process. The nation's blood supply is that
Speaker 1: its largest deficit over a decade. The American Red Cross
Speaker 1: has declared a national blood crisis of the Titans have
Speaker 1: decided to not only host a blood drive at Nissan
Speaker 1: Stadium on Tuesday, but to also use our platform to
Speaker 1: help promote blood donation by sponsoring drives across Middle Tennessee
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, wherever you're listening to the OTP, wherever
Speaker 1: you're listening, we want Titans fans anywhere to sign up
Speaker 1: to donate blood at any location near you. Go to
Speaker 1: Red Cross blood dot org, slash donate and just type
Speaker 1: in your zip coat. Wherever you're listening to the OTP,
Speaker 1: you can find a blood drive and go give blood. Amy.
Speaker 1: Here's the way you can make a difference as a
Speaker 1: Titans fan in the lead up to the divisional weekend. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: the Titans all season, it's not a secret, have been
Speaker 1: putting a huge emphasis on serving their community. And the
Speaker 1: nice thing about Titans Nation in the way that it's
Speaker 1: growing right now. Is that that's not just Middle Tennessee
Speaker 1: specific anymore. Titans Nation is all over the place. We
Speaker 1: are all over the United States, all over the Mid South,
Speaker 1: all over the world. There are Titans fans and so
Speaker 1: to be able to all do something together and get
Speaker 1: out and make such an impact in something so easy
Speaker 1: as donating blood, I mean you literally sit down the
Speaker 1: whole time like this is what you do. So let's
Speaker 1: all get together, band together, do something awesome, help save
Speaker 1: people's lives by sitting in a chair. So, just like
Speaker 1: Mike said, head over to Red Crossblood dot org flash
Speaker 1: donate and you really just type in your zip clode.
Speaker 1: I've done it before. It's the easiest thing you could do.
Speaker 1: You can organize them by closest to the location where
Speaker 1: you are googling from. So I just organized it. Found
Speaker 1: the closest spot. It was church. I went down the
Speaker 1: road donated blood. It was very easy. So, yes, there's
Speaker 1: going to be one Nissan Stadium on Tuesday. If you're
Speaker 1: already signed up to do that, I know that Mike
Speaker 1: Keith is going to be donating there. Keith is doing it.
Speaker 1: But even if you can't get out to the Stadium
Speaker 1: sometime this week in honor of the Titans being in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and what an awesome time this is. Let's
Speaker 1: all just go out and donate blood wherever we can.
Speaker 1: It will really truly make a huge impact. And that
Speaker 1: blood drive the particular one at Nissan Stadium for all
Speaker 1: the OTP that's Tuesday from noon to six in the
Speaker 1: club section, and there will be Titans giveaways throughout the day,
Speaker 1: including you can sign up to win an aj Brown
Speaker 1: autographed helmet. I know that is one of the items
Speaker 1: they're giving away. And the important thing about going to
Speaker 1: the website to sign up ahead of time and register.
Speaker 1: That's Red Cross blood dot org slash donate. It's because
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of walk up availability in a
Speaker 1: lot of cases because the Red Cross is staffing issues
Speaker 1: and things with pandemic and all those things in mind,
Speaker 1: So plea please do that. Go to the website and
Speaker 1: sign up that way you can get registered, get you
Speaker 1: a time in an appointment there to make sure that
Speaker 1: you get that to happen on that so you can
Speaker 1: donate blood. That is important part of this to make
Speaker 1: sure that you can make your donation of blood instead
Speaker 1: of just trying to walk up and do it, and
Speaker 1: maybe in other places throughout these next three or four days.
Speaker 1: You can go to a place near you if you
Speaker 1: can't make it to Nissan Stadium, but it's a fantastic effort.
Speaker 1: Red Cross Blood dot org slash donate, type in your
Speaker 1: zip code and give blood this week as we try
Speaker 1: to help the American Red Cross as we get ready
Speaker 1: for Divisional Football AFC Divisional Round Football the Elite eighth
Speaker 1: this weekend, three thirty Central time, kickoff Centcinnata and Tennessee
Speaker 1: at Nissan Stadium, Amy Wells and Reet Bryan The Titans
Speaker 1: capdown on Titans Radio beginning at two Central times. So
Speaker 1: for Amy and Rhett, I might key thanks for joining
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