Speaker 1: Game day, he's every day. No, it's Texans all excess,
Speaker 1: all right, Welcome to the podcast. It's the Search, Part two,
Speaker 1: Episode two of this series, which we hope is only
Speaker 1: a one year series for a long long time. As
Speaker 1: episode two, we talked about some of the candidates, the
Speaker 1: reported candidates in episode one. But now since we last
Speaker 1: left you with the Search, well many candidates have been
Speaker 1: interviewed and the Texans have been releasing the interviews as
Speaker 1: they have taken place. And here we are. This is
Speaker 1: being recorded right after the divisional round, Johnny, and it's
Speaker 1: fun to talk about. We'll talk about some of these
Speaker 1: games because they involve Texans coaching candidates and that's cool.
Speaker 1: I like this. You can evaluate the performance on the flight.
Speaker 1: It's not just about how they do in the postseason, obviously,
Speaker 1: it's a body of work here and more than that
Speaker 1: even but it's cool, Yeah, it is. You had forty
Speaker 1: nine ers Dmkran's. Obviously, you had the Giants Eagles, which
Speaker 1: had Mike Kafka one side, and you had changed I
Speaker 1: Can and Johnathan Gannon on the other for the Eagles,
Speaker 1: so you you certainly had that going on, which was
Speaker 1: it was kind of fun to watch um. The games
Speaker 1: weren't like last year. Last year's divisional playoff round was unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mean last year's playoff. Last year's divisional playoff round
Speaker 1: Michael Dona is one of the best two days in sports.
Speaker 1: Ye can't. It would be just it would be dubious.
Speaker 1: If you had that every year, I'd wonder, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: what's going on here? But are you with me on
Speaker 1: this though? Look, all right, Mahomes gets hurt, and I
Speaker 1: heard Sean and Seth talking about it, Well, it wasn't
Speaker 1: that fun to watch if you don't have a dog
Speaker 1: of the fight or whatever the case. Maybe and maybe
Speaker 1: that's true, But to me, I was really intrigued by
Speaker 1: how Andy Read and company, how they were going to
Speaker 1: navigate their way to a win with a banged up
Speaker 1: Mahomes after they had already played Chad Henny semi Texans
Speaker 1: killer Chad Henny as I mean, it's not like he's
Speaker 1: that enormous success, but he's had definitely some success against
Speaker 1: the Texans, and he did pretty well with that ninety
Speaker 1: plus yard drive. I almost texted you, guys, but I
Speaker 1: knew exactly the answer that I was gonna get Chad
Speaker 1: Hanny went in the game. All was texted both you
Speaker 1: and Andrea, and I knew Andrea was gonna be like
Speaker 1: SE told you. And it was a tremendous drive and
Speaker 1: obviously Pacheco's run was massive on that drive. But Peyton
Speaker 1: Manning said something that I've said for years, and it's
Speaker 1: a lot easier to do at the high school college
Speaker 1: level because you have you have eight more minutes in college.
Speaker 1: You have eighteen more minutes in high school, and that's
Speaker 1: making adjustments at the half. Payton Manning said, He's like, look,
Speaker 1: and I've said it. We've talked about a million times.
Speaker 1: Twelve minutes goes fast, faster than you think. It's enough
Speaker 1: time to kind of readjust yourself, go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: have an orange slice, maybe grab a crustable, and that's it.
Speaker 1: An accrustable and that's it. I mean, that's about all
Speaker 1: the time you have it. All right, let's go back out.
Speaker 1: So you have to make adjustments in the game during
Speaker 1: the game and go if you're gonna make one. And
Speaker 1: that's one where Andy Reid was like, man, okay, do
Speaker 1: I stick with right now a guy that's got one leg,
Speaker 1: or do I go to my backup a guy that
Speaker 1: I trusted, I rely on, and all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with that. And he goes ninety eight yards on
Speaker 1: a drive and I mean it was you know, he
Speaker 1: made key throws throughout that drive. I mean it looked
Speaker 1: like Mahomes, But who does and he did it. And
Speaker 1: I think that's that's the one thing to keep in
Speaker 1: mind as we talk about this search. We talk about
Speaker 1: this guy's background, this guy's background, that guy does this,
Speaker 1: that guy does that. The biggest thing to me as
Speaker 1: a head coach. And you won't know this until a
Speaker 1: guy gets into that moment as being a head coach,
Speaker 1: which guy can make can force his staff and get
Speaker 1: his staff to make adjustments when they need to be made.
Speaker 1: You keep getting like yesterday. I think it was a
Speaker 1: great example yesterday. Yesterday being Sunday, the Bengals and the Bills.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know if it's because of snow and
Speaker 1: they couldn't see the white jersey Bengals blitzing from the edge,
Speaker 1: but I don't know how many times the defensive backs
Speaker 1: came out of blitz and the Bills never picked it up,
Speaker 1: never picked it up. That's an adjustment that I really
Speaker 1: welcome team, which the Bills are needed to make, and
Speaker 1: they didn't make it. They didn't pick that adjustment up,
Speaker 1: and so the Bengals kept going to it and the
Speaker 1: Bills were never never really able to stop it. So
Speaker 1: game plan prep is huge, but then being able to
Speaker 1: make those adjustments in real time, real time you send
Speaker 1: a sidine and go, hey man, they keep bringing Hilton
Speaker 1: from the edge when you see twenty one in the slot.
Speaker 1: Here's how we're gonna adapt, Here's how we're gonna adjust. It.
Speaker 1: Never felt like the Bills were able to make that adjustment.
Speaker 1: So whether it's Stiken or Kafka Gannon, Thomas Brown, Damika,
Speaker 1: Ryan Schampayn, whomever, that coach has got to be able
Speaker 1: to make those adjustments or get his staff to make
Speaker 1: those adjustments, even if it's walking over to the offensive
Speaker 1: line huddle, even though it's a defensive minded head coach
Speaker 1: walking over the offensive line huddle and saying, hey, they're
Speaker 1: doing this to you defensively. We need to change this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do about that? Do it? Coach?
Speaker 1: I gotta go back and you'll help the defense. And
Speaker 1: your staff then has to do that. And that's the
Speaker 1: kind of head coach. I think you've got to be
Speaker 1: able to have is one that make those adjustments from
Speaker 1: week to week, but also drive to drive if needed,
Speaker 1: and that's massive in this league. The game involving the
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the forty nine ers, obviously, Demiko Ryan's defense
Speaker 1: did a tremendous job. Twelve points the total for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys in that Divisional round game. They lost Pollard
Speaker 1: in the first half. It was big. But look, you
Speaker 1: have Ezekiel Elliott, you have Dak Prescott. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ers aren't gonna cry any
Speaker 1: tears for you. They're playing a third string mister irrelevant
Speaker 1: quarterback and doing pretty darn well with it. And I
Speaker 1: know they've been at it for a while. This was
Speaker 1: an in game adjustment that the Cowboys had to make
Speaker 1: and they didn't make it very well, and Dak through
Speaker 1: two interceptions and all of that. But I thought that
Speaker 1: Demiko's defense, the whole demeanor of Demiko on the sideline,
Speaker 1: the way the guys play hard for him. I know
Speaker 1: they've got a squad, Johnny, They've got a lot of
Speaker 1: talent on that side of the ball, and he's grown
Speaker 1: up with them from a position coach to a coordinator,
Speaker 1: and here he is in the NFC Championship Game again
Speaker 1: and a chance to get to the Super Bowl. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome to see if he can do it.
Speaker 1: But I liked what I saw out of him on
Speaker 1: Sunday against that Dallas offense. Yeah, there's no doubt that
Speaker 1: you're right. Without Pollard. Oh yeah, Ezekiel Eliott, he's still
Speaker 1: pretty good. He's not what he used to be, but
Speaker 1: he's still pretty good, except for when they haven't played center.
Speaker 1: Um that's at that's unfortunate. But Demiko, Yeah, Demiko's got
Speaker 1: some talents. Let's not let's not get it twisted. There's
Speaker 1: some talent, but there's also something to be said for Okay,
Speaker 1: you got talent, but what do you do with it?
Speaker 1: We see a lot of coaches that have a lot
Speaker 1: of talent and then they do nothing with it. They
Speaker 1: you know, they can't make adjustments. They just roll out
Speaker 1: the balls and let him play. And that only gets
Speaker 1: you so far. And I feel like when I watched
Speaker 1: the forty nine, I feel like it's a very discipline group.
Speaker 1: They tackle well, and I think that's that's a lot
Speaker 1: of the players but it's also on the coaching staff
Speaker 1: guys that have to be in the right position. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Ward was in a perfect position to make that one interception.
Speaker 1: I thought that was I was arguably the biggest player
Speaker 1: the game. Six to six, cows are going down, potentially
Speaker 1: gonna score for the half. I think it was before
Speaker 1: the half, and Dack throws a ball into a spot
Speaker 1: where he didn't expect Jimmy Warre to be. But Jimmy
Speaker 1: Warred is there tips it. Fred Warner makes a play.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I said this last year getting
Speaker 1: ready for the forty nine ers, and I'll say it again,
Speaker 1: I think Fred Warner is the top ten player in
Speaker 1: this league. He's incredible. He is absolutely incredible. And to
Speaker 1: your point about growing up with Demiko. When Fred Warner
Speaker 1: got into the league, Demiko was his position coach. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's just that relationship has grown and grown and grown,
Speaker 1: and you can see that relationship with linebackers and defense
Speaker 1: coordinators over the years. You know, Lovey had that with
Speaker 1: his His guys are a locker and breaks up in
Speaker 1: Chicago for a long long time. So that'll be one
Speaker 1: thing that Demiko has had and had that relationship so
Speaker 1: Fred Warner if Demiko ends up taking you know what
Speaker 1: he said, coaching jobs, and hopefully it's here, but he's
Speaker 1: gonna have to forge that relationship quicker than not. But
Speaker 1: he's also coming here with a lot of stroke. He'll be,
Speaker 1: you know, number one defense. Guys are gonna pay attention.
Speaker 1: Of course, we always knew when he was a player, guys,
Speaker 1: you know, he spoke, people paid attention. He wasn't called
Speaker 1: cap for you know, leverage you can call it's got cap.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's called cap for a reason. So so
Speaker 1: there's there's definitely that I thought the most impressive performance
Speaker 1: all weak and he's not. It's funny because Robert Hensley
Speaker 1: Texas is lou Anon Rumbo, the defensive coordinator for the Bengals,
Speaker 1: put on a show against he did. He did. He's
Speaker 1: just not his name is not being considered as such.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's just the defensive mindset.
Speaker 1: There are not many of those out there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Lou Ana Rumos a
Speaker 1: little bit older, he put on a show. The others
Speaker 1: were the two Eagles coordinators. The Eagles absolutely dominated team.
Speaker 1: They had already seen twice this year. Yeah. Dominated I
Speaker 1: mean it wasn't even it wasn't even a ball game. Mark,
Speaker 1: he was doing point Saturday night. Shut it off. I
Speaker 1: shut it off half. I'm like, well, I'm not wasting
Speaker 1: my time, elementary, No way you I shut it off
Speaker 1: a half. Yeah, it's gross. Im this prediculous. Jack's about
Speaker 1: twenty ain't nothing. Yeah, I mean well, I mean I
Speaker 1: kept tabs on it. Yeah. And the Giants game, I'm like, no, Um,
Speaker 1: the Eagles. It's interesting because when we played the Eagles
Speaker 1: here and and we're going toe to toe with them
Speaker 1: on at the half and that one and we've got
Speaker 1: the ball in the third quarter. It's interesting because the
Speaker 1: Eagles did a kind of a you know, tellustrator. They
Speaker 1: did it with their their defensive backs. Coach to Hard
Speaker 1: Wilson and talked about that the interception that got flipped
Speaker 1: going the other way, and so, um, that was it
Speaker 1: was interesting to see that. But those those coordinators Stiken
Speaker 1: and Gannon, it's to me, it's interesting because you can see,
Speaker 1: you know, young guys are always trying to You're always
Speaker 1: trying to come up with something new. You know. That
Speaker 1: was like, hey check this out, Hey watch me do this.
Speaker 1: Those guys just they have they've they've cultivated a plan
Speaker 1: and they follow it and it doesn't mean they can't
Speaker 1: adjust to it, and quite the contrary, but they don't
Speaker 1: have to do flashy things. They're not bringing this guy
Speaker 1: off this edge and dropping three guys into coverage. You're
Speaker 1: not showing you nine to laun of scrimmage and then
Speaker 1: blitzing five and dropping four. You know, they just play good,
Speaker 1: solid football when you have And this is one of
Speaker 1: the things that I think is even more key in
Speaker 1: the NFL now. And we saw this. We seen this
Speaker 1: with the Texans, and it felt like it was it
Speaker 1: was telling about the Texans when guys went down, especially
Speaker 1: the Dallas game. When guys went down in the Dallas game,
Speaker 1: you know, like I think about Stephen Nelson, Stephen Nelson
Speaker 1: goes down a Dallas game, tray moon Smith stepped in, yeah,
Speaker 1: and two picks. Two picks played a pre solid ball
Speaker 1: game all around. Read blanket ship for rookie safety for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, not only I mean Traymont's got some pelts
Speaker 1: on the wall. He's been around for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Read blanket Ships is a rookie and the Eagles have
Speaker 1: had some guys banged up in a secondary read blanket
Speaker 1: ships gotta go in. He makes some huge plays in
Speaker 1: that game. So to get something out of an undrafted
Speaker 1: rookie at this time of year, I think speaks a
Speaker 1: lot to Jonathan Gannon a defensive side and Shane Stike
Speaker 1: and on the offensive side that offense. That offense was
Speaker 1: just a machine and Jalen seemingly is about as healthy
Speaker 1: as he could be. But this is a great challenge,
Speaker 1: all right, Mike Kafka, and I believe that's the proper pronunciation,
Speaker 1: not like Franz Kafka with metamorphosis, but Mike Kafka, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking anything away from his performance this year with
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and that offense, which overperformed. Come on and
Speaker 1: they win a playoff game on the road against the Vikings.
Speaker 1: And I know the Vikings are the subject of many
Speaker 1: memes NFL memes. People mocked them and Kirk Cousins and
Speaker 1: the chains and all that. I get it. But you're
Speaker 1: on the road at Minnesota. We've been there. It's a
Speaker 1: very tough place to play. They got that victory on
Speaker 1: the road, a playoff win first time in a long
Speaker 1: time for the Giants. Good season, maybe a great season,
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty in the context of where we thought
Speaker 1: they would be, right, But the Eagles are an elite
Speaker 1: team and Johnny and so I'm just gonna put this
Speaker 1: Kafka thing on up to the side. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the Texans think of Kafka they interview him, but
Speaker 1: I'm not going to take anything away from his performances
Speaker 1: here based on that playoff loss. I mean, Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: kind of turned back into Daniel Jones in that game.
Speaker 1: But so what, they had a really nice year and
Speaker 1: he's an up and coming coach and good for him,
Speaker 1: and who knows, maybe he's the next coach of the Texans.
Speaker 1: But I like those guys in Philly, Gannon, stike In
Speaker 1: obviously love Demiko. I think it's fascinating to see this
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game and these three top Texans coaching candidates
Speaker 1: going at it this week, and especially Ryan's versus stike In.
Speaker 1: And I know it's about more than that, it's the players,
Speaker 1: but it's really cool to see that. I have a
Speaker 1: feeling the road ends here for the forty nine ers. Perty. Oh,
Speaker 1: I want to bring up something here. Oh, it's a
Speaker 1: little tangent here on Trey Lance because I was watching
Speaker 1: the game with great intensity the Dallas Cowboys versus the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, rooting for the forty nine ers because
Speaker 1: I don't want Das to do anything obviously, and I thought, man,
Speaker 1: I can see why Shanahan and co. Really wanted the
Speaker 1: side of Trey Lance to them. Maybe it's look, look
Speaker 1: what Mahomes did for the previous led by Alex Smith,
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs offense right, previously led by him, and
Speaker 1: takes it to another level. I think their feelings that
Speaker 1: Trey Lance was going to take them to another level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not going to get to that level with Brock
Speaker 1: Purdy in all likelihood, but they're super solid with Purdy.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what they're thinking going forward, but
Speaker 1: I can tell just the way he was calling that game,
Speaker 1: he was very careful, let's not do too much with
Speaker 1: Brock here. Okay, still a rookie. This is a tough spot.
Speaker 1: The ball's coming out a little wobbly at times, and
Speaker 1: he's making those solid intermediate area throws. Good, good good.
Speaker 1: I got to feel that their feeling is Trey Lance
Speaker 1: can take us to magical places where we've never been
Speaker 1: with this offense, and they might still feel that way, Johnny,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we'll see. For now, it's Sunday
Speaker 1: Brock Purdy against Jalen Hurts in the NFC Championship. A
Speaker 1: couple of things. Number One, we were able to run
Speaker 1: the ball against that Eagles defense. Let's say we have
Speaker 1: the Texans. If the forty nine ers can run the
Speaker 1: ball the way that we were able to much, then
Speaker 1: Brock Purty is going to be able to dominate. With
Speaker 1: the bootleg game. That has been a big part of
Speaker 1: what they do because we saw it here in Houston.
Speaker 1: Zone zone, zone, boot zone, boot split, zone, boot you
Speaker 1: they run that bootleg. Kyle's run that bootleg, and what
Speaker 1: he's done is he's evolved with that bootleg. It is
Speaker 1: as as it was with Matt, but it's even more
Speaker 1: so I think with pretty must say Matt match Shop,
Speaker 1: where everybody thinks the bootleg is, you know, a guy
Speaker 1: boots and then all of a sudden he's looking at
Speaker 1: one half of the field and he's thrown to somebody
Speaker 1: on that side. The boot game has now become almost
Speaker 1: like a just a play action to give you some
Speaker 1: kind of half roll action and then throw it back
Speaker 1: the other way too. That that's what I used to
Speaker 1: love with Kyle Shannahan. That's one of my favorite concepts
Speaker 1: in all football is to roll throwback, boot, throwback, and
Speaker 1: that's what Purty can do. That part of the game
Speaker 1: was really taken away because they couldn't run the football.
Speaker 1: They just could not get the run game going. And
Speaker 1: I think some of that had to do with Dallas's
Speaker 1: front Michael Parsons was playing different spots and I think
Speaker 1: that kind of threw the forty nine ers off a
Speaker 1: little bit. But I do think there was a little
Speaker 1: bit of that. But here they are going on the road.
Speaker 1: They're now the underdog. So I think actually Kyle Shanahan's
Speaker 1: in a better spot that way, because they went to
Speaker 1: LA last year, played the Rams, and I feel like
Speaker 1: this is just my thirty thousand foot view from a distance.
Speaker 1: I felt that way with Garoppolo, like they knew there
Speaker 1: were certain things they weren't going to get out of Jimmy.
Speaker 1: They just knew it. I feel like they can get
Speaker 1: more out of Purdy Wow, because habits aren't totally ingrained
Speaker 1: in him yet. They've started with him from the beginning
Speaker 1: and I think there's there now. I've always thought that
Speaker 1: Trey Lance was the guy that they thought could give
Speaker 1: them the kind of mahomes S sort of thing they're
Speaker 1: looking for, and you still don't know. He played three
Speaker 1: games last year, one against US where he got better
Speaker 1: during the game against US. I think he started one game,
Speaker 1: broke his leg and that was it. One game man
Speaker 1: one game in twenty two. So I think if I'm Kyle,
Speaker 1: I know I can't go into the game and be
Speaker 1: that conservative with him. I've got to be a little
Speaker 1: bit better about opening some things up for him. And
Speaker 1: that means getting the run game going. If that means
Speaker 1: using debo a little bit more, I gotta use debo,
Speaker 1: maybe put McCaffrey out. Why that seemed to throw the
Speaker 1: Cowboys off a little bit, even though they knew it
Speaker 1: was coming, Like how do you hand them McCaffrey and
Speaker 1: when he lines up in different spots, And I think
Speaker 1: that's where Kyle has to really kind of tap into
Speaker 1: that a little bit more this week. But I think
Speaker 1: perty will give them just as good a shot of
Speaker 1: going to beat in Philly because I think Kyle will
Speaker 1: coach a little bit more like he's the underdog as
Speaker 1: opposed to they're the favorite. Playing at home, everybody expect
Speaker 1: you when I think he'll let his hair down a
Speaker 1: little bit, whatever he's got left of it, and and
Speaker 1: let purty not hurt the team. But I think to
Speaker 1: beat Philly you gotta get up into the thirties. I
Speaker 1: think also Kyle felt like, look, Dallas isn't scoring us today.
Speaker 1: Let's not. Let's not, you know, throw this game away
Speaker 1: if you will. Oh, you got to get to the
Speaker 1: thirties to beat Philly, And I think that will open
Speaker 1: it up for him a little bit. If you're Dallas,
Speaker 1: if you're Jerry Jones, you're Mike McCarthy. And I'm telling
Speaker 1: you before the game, nineteen points for San Francisco, take
Speaker 1: it or take the unknown. Oh I take nineteen. We're
Speaker 1: gonna score three touchdowns in this game. But they didn't.
Speaker 1: And there it is. They made a couple of field
Speaker 1: goals though. That was good for them, you're good for them.
Speaker 1: How about that one block? That thing was going nowhere.
Speaker 1: You know, he's probably so glad it was blocked, because
Speaker 1: if that's all that helped him a sales free and
Speaker 1: get shanked, it's just another one. What a story that was.
Speaker 1: I thought, Jimmy Johnson in the pre game, and I
Speaker 1: don't usually watch all these pre games. When I had
Speaker 1: it on the other it is over, and Jimmy Johnson
Speaker 1: said that kickers man, once they get the yips, you
Speaker 1: can't trust him. That I mean, once they get the yips. Ouch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'll give it to him. He bounced back. He
Speaker 1: made a couple of field goals, and I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people have it was a twenty five year
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, it's that goalpost. Looked about those uprights
Speaker 1: looked about six inches apart through at that point. The
Speaker 1: fact that he was out there so early and then
Speaker 1: everybody's all the gamesmanship, everybody's around him before interference, it
Speaker 1: was so in his head. And that's that's the thing
Speaker 1: about kickers. Look, I did a show with Chris Barr,
Speaker 1: legendary Kent State and NFL kicker, Chris Bar This is
Speaker 1: a long time ago, Johnny, and he just he once
Speaker 1: told me, and I'll never forget it because, like I do,
Speaker 1: a great kicker reference right there. He said, it's all
Speaker 1: about your brain. He said, all these guys in the
Speaker 1: NFL can kick it a mile, and some guys more
Speaker 1: longer than others. Whatever he goes, it's all about what's
Speaker 1: between your ears and can you handle that, can you
Speaker 1: handle the pressure? Can you get step up there? Make
Speaker 1: the big kick at a big time? All right? So
Speaker 1: it's demikover versus Stike in. It's Gannon trying to hold
Speaker 1: his own on the Philly side against that Shanahan led
Speaker 1: offense for San Francisco. Early thought on the winner on
Speaker 1: Sunday NFC Championship game. I've said San Francisco for a while.
Speaker 1: I remember the first day we asked Dre who was
Speaker 1: the best team, who would you put your money on
Speaker 1: and go into Super Bowl? And that was I thought,
Speaker 1: san Francisco. He said, San Francisco. I've I've been in
Speaker 1: favor of San Francisco. If here's the difference. I think
Speaker 1: San Francisco's got a six and a half or a
Speaker 1: seven in their in their bag. They're gonna have to
Speaker 1: be at ten and they've got the capability of being that.
Speaker 1: The Eagles to me, are a solid nine across the board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the Eagles are gonna be a nine. You know
Speaker 1: that at home? At home, they're gonna be a nine.
Speaker 1: And they don't change. They're nine wherever they play them.
Speaker 1: So but the forty nine ers a goot that six
Speaker 1: and a half seven in them, which I think is
Speaker 1: what they got against the Cowboys. The forty nine ers
Speaker 1: best beast, the Eagles best oh, the top level performance
Speaker 1: if they get there, I'm picking the Eagles. What about Bengals? Chiefs, Oh,
Speaker 1: we don't know about Mahomes And as we're recording, those
Speaker 1: things can be changing as we speak. I got the Bengals, though.
Speaker 1: The Bengals just look so hot to me. And I
Speaker 1: know they're banged up here and there and everywhere, but gosh,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrows so confident. They are feeding off of that.
Speaker 1: And when Romo, I know Romo gets a lot of heat,
Speaker 1: but when he's talking about Burrow just standing up at
Speaker 1: the line and Peyton Manning in the situation looking around
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna go to the slot left here, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick my guy when I get to get up
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage and see the matchup, which
Speaker 1: is what Manning used to do, and Brady too. They
Speaker 1: could just do it. If Burrows that good, if they're
Speaker 1: really operating like that, good night everybody. I mean, he
Speaker 1: is so polished right now, so confident I cannot pick
Speaker 1: against Joe Burrow in that game. The Bengals are three
Speaker 1: and oh in twenty twenty two against the Chiefs. They
Speaker 1: beat him in week seventeen the regular season. Wow, then
Speaker 1: they beat him in the playoffs, and then they beat
Speaker 1: him this season. I think that's got to stop. I
Speaker 1: think Mahomes will do everything in his power to make
Speaker 1: it stop. And or Chad Henning here, but here's or
Speaker 1: Chad Henning. I don't think Henny beats him. I think
Speaker 1: here's the thing to think about. When we played Mahomes
Speaker 1: in nineteen up there, he was coming off the week
Speaker 1: before he had injured his ankle against the Colts. He
Speaker 1: played against us, but you could tell he was not
Speaker 1: the same. The scrambles were out and that was big.
Speaker 1: And Louanna Rumo will put the heat on him and
Speaker 1: force him to do it. I think it's very tough
Speaker 1: to be a team four team times in a row.
Speaker 1: But if any team is gonna do it, it's the Bengals.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna be a prisoner at the moment.
Speaker 1: I've thought Kansas City. I thought Buffalo is gonna come
Speaker 1: out of there, and if it wasn't Buffalo's Kansas City.
Speaker 1: I just think Buffalo or Kansas City playing at home
Speaker 1: with mahomes. Whether it's a one hundred percent or not,
Speaker 1: who knows. But I think Cincinnati will scheme it up
Speaker 1: and make it tough for him. But I think Kansas
Speaker 1: City in the end will not let four times in
Speaker 1: a row it won't happen. So I'm going Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and you gotta twist my arm or go at Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: But I'm San Francisco, Kansas City, San Francisco. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll be pulling for Demico. Trust me, he's family, you know,
Speaker 1: whether he's the head coach or not. I'm pulling for Demiko.
Speaker 1: But in fact, if he's not going to be the
Speaker 1: head coach, then you want the other guys to be
Speaker 1: done sooner. Yeah, I want somebody in here sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later. But look, you want to wait for the
Speaker 1: right guy, whoever happen want him at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: You know that, of course it is. That's happened twice now,
Speaker 1: I know. But we'll look. We don't want to make
Speaker 1: a habit of this kind of thing. I don't want
Speaker 1: to this show called the Search. Ye, this needs to stop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this searched. Ten years from now, we'll bring back the search.
Speaker 1: That's what we're hoping for after much great success. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to see Mahomes try to scramble, because what
Speaker 1: do I always say about Mahomes, it's the runs that
Speaker 1: kill you as much as anything at select times. And
Speaker 1: he won't be able to do that, you would think
Speaker 1: as well as he usually does. All Right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for this episode of the Search. Episode two,
Speaker 1: we'll find out what happens on episode three. Episode three
Speaker 1: might be the actual naming of the head coach. We'll
Speaker 1: find out soon enough. Check out all the other podcasts
Speaker 1: wherever you got this one, including Drew Doherty talking to
Speaker 1: Chris Myers, which is awesome, and what he has to
Speaker 1: say about Andre Johnson getting into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: Have a great day, Go Texans,