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Speaker 1: takes in just ten minutes. Playoff Edition. Should we just
Speaker 1: get nuts and get right into it? Should I not
Speaker 1: even do a little ramp up, a little mental preparation?
Speaker 1: Should I not just do a psychological crow hop before
Speaker 1: I go right into the ten? I think I'm doing
Speaker 1: it right now. So let's go take number one. The
Speaker 1: Bills are alive. The Bills are champions. The Bills are
Speaker 1: like a modern miracle. Do you understand? The Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: were six and six team who is losing on Monday
Speaker 1: Night Football. I'm staring catatonic on the Manning cast because
Speaker 1: they had twelve guys on the field like a bleeping
Speaker 1: high school team. This season was cooked. There's the very strange,
Speaker 1: bizarre Sean McDermott story, and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they're falling apart. Hell no, if you know, you know,
Speaker 1: when you have that quarterback and you have that roster,
Speaker 1: you're always in it. And then they show up in Miami. Man,
Speaker 1: they're always exciting, aren't they. Sometimes they look like the
Speaker 1: best team in the league. Sometimes they look like head cases,
Speaker 1: but they're really exciting to watch because Sugar High Josh
Speaker 1: Allen came to Florida. Still love Sugar Hi Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: He doesn't come out as much as you used to,
Speaker 1: but he was in full chucker mode. Two end zone
Speaker 1: interceptions in one half, and then when he throws the
Speaker 1: third one that gets deflected, You're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be picked off the end zone again, and
Speaker 1: it was like the greatest toe tap thing ever. The
Speaker 1: fact is, though, six and six to T shirts pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Not only imagine being a Bills fan, imagine being a
Speaker 1: Bills player. You go from maybe we can get in
Speaker 1: a wild card early in the day, you find out
Speaker 1: you're already in because Jackson Ball loses, so you're going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. That's pretty nice. Then you win the division.
Speaker 1: Then you find out, oh, who we playing in our
Speaker 1: home game. We're playing Pittsburgh, who doesn't have their best
Speaker 1: player and the best pass rusher in the world and
Speaker 1: a guy who would probably really give Josh Allen props.
Speaker 1: T J. Watts out Pittsburgh at home versus Mason Rudolph. No. TJ. Watt.
Speaker 1: That's a big day for Buffalo, huge day. Meanwhile, Mammy
Speaker 1: gets dispatched to Arrowhead. It's just great. It's set up
Speaker 1: really well for the Bills take number two. I don't
Speaker 1: think the Eagles are still a franchise. Do they exist,
Speaker 1: have they been contracted? Are they gone? I'll tell you this,
Speaker 1: I do have genuine love for Nick Sirianni. I love
Speaker 1: that he's fiery. I like all that stuff that some
Speaker 1: people hate about him. You gotta do a little better
Speaker 1: at this point than losing to the Giants with featuring
Speaker 1: appearances by Tommy DeVito. You gotta do a little better
Speaker 1: than your stock boxing metaphor to explain what's going on
Speaker 1: with the team.
Speaker 2: Like I don't like when you're when you get hit
Speaker 2: in life, when you get hit in football, you've got
Speaker 2: two options. You can stay down or you can get
Speaker 2: You can get that up, and I know this group
Speaker 2: is fighters, and we know how to get up.
Speaker 1: Nick, you've been down for six weeks. This isn't like
Speaker 1: you caught a straight punch and had to take a
Speaker 1: knee and use the whole count to get up and
Speaker 1: have the refs wipe your gloves off and re engage.
Speaker 1: You're unconscious, on the mat, your face down. The other
Speaker 1: boxer is standing in the opposite corner up on the turnbuckle,
Speaker 1: hyping the crowd, and the other boxer who knocked you
Speaker 1: out is Tommy DeVito and Trod Taylor and Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: It's terrible. You gotta give me something better than the
Speaker 1: size of the dog in the fight, the fight and
Speaker 1: the dog like. It's not how many times you get
Speaker 1: knocked down, it's how many times you get like this
Speaker 1: is awful. If you're gonna really force me to do
Speaker 1: a boxing metaphor or a local one for Philadelphia right now,
Speaker 1: the Eagles are Balboa versus clubber Lang. The first time
Speaker 1: Balboa Lang won where they just ate right hands and
Speaker 1: were completely psychologically out of it. It's insane what's going
Speaker 1: on with Philadelphia the get Right game. They're down twenty
Speaker 1: four to nothing to the Giants in the Get Right game,
Speaker 1: and you know what's crazy, I still think they're gonna
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks on the road. Take number three, Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith goes up to Dennis Allen and pretty much gets
Speaker 1: close to fighting him because it's Dennis Allen. Here's my guys,
Speaker 1: that Arthur Smith wouldn't do that too I'd like to
Speaker 1: see if Arthur Smith would have done it to a
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, if that's against the Lions and the Lions
Speaker 1: had just run in a touchdown. Jamal Williams old team.
Speaker 1: Is Arthur Smith really walking up to Dan Campbell and saying,
Speaker 1: bleep you who the bleep? You are kissed my bleep?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Mike Vrabol number two, he's definitely
Speaker 1: not doing it to Raybel and number one Antonio Pierce,
Speaker 1: head coach of the Raiders. Maybe they're indefinite head coach
Speaker 1: not doing it to him either. Dennis Allen Harmless never
Speaker 1: said anything in consequence small physically, no problem. Go right
Speaker 1: up to him. You're not doing that to Campbell, Vrabel
Speaker 1: or Antonio Pierce. And maybe he is. And if he is,
Speaker 1: I think they would have fought. I missed Jim Schwartz yesterday.
Speaker 1: I missed Jim Harbaugh. I wish it would have been
Speaker 1: one of them, because then it would have been insane.
Speaker 1: Take number four, What am I supposed to say about
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears? Does that a take? It's a question,
Speaker 1: it's a rhetorical question. I don't know if you saw it.
Speaker 1: Maybe you did, Maybe you don't care a hoot and
Speaker 1: holler about Justin Fields. And this is the biggest game
Speaker 1: of his life, and this is the first game he's
Speaker 1: going to be a Bear's legend. He's going to Lambeau.
Speaker 1: If you could eliminate them playoff run, he could eliminate
Speaker 1: the the Justin Fields debate that we're about to have.
Speaker 1: There is no debate. Oh there's a debate. It's pretty
Speaker 1: one sided, though, and it's beans, get rid of Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: The Bears came up with nothing in Lambeau, just nothing.
Speaker 1: They didn't score a damn touchdown and what felt like
Speaker 1: a really important game for a team that was already eliminated.
Speaker 1: Cairo Santos, you knew who that is. He might have
Speaker 1: him in fantasy. He was the Bear's best player. He's
Speaker 1: their kicker. And it was just not only how bad fields,
Speaker 1: the offense, the team, everything looked. It was how damn
Speaker 1: good the Packers looked. And that brings me to take
Speaker 1: number five. The Packers did it again. They have a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. Again. They were right. It really looks like
Speaker 1: what I've called the strangest draft pick for years. When
Speaker 1: you have a first round pick that you spent on
Speaker 1: a project quarterback. When your MVP quarterback is sitting there, ready, waiting,
Speaker 1: wanting weapons, you choose that. I've said it the drangerest
Speaker 1: pick of all time. Maybe not, Maybe Brian Goodakuntz was right.
Speaker 1: Jordan Love is playing better than Rogers was last year.
Speaker 1: Jordan Love is playing better than Rogers was in his
Speaker 1: first year. He is the first Packers quarterback to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs in his first year as a starter. It's
Speaker 1: never happened before. In the last eight games, he has
Speaker 1: eighteen touchdowns in one interception. He's never lost to the Bears.
Speaker 1: It's an unbelievable display of Jordan Love, who I have
Speaker 1: so much respect and admiration for, who for the last
Speaker 1: three plus years has said nothing out of line, nothing
Speaker 1: to raise eyebrows, and he's at every single person with
Speaker 1: a Twitter account, a microphone, or a pen and a
Speaker 1: pad wanting him to Jordan Love is impressive as hell,
Speaker 1: just impressive as hell. I don't know if they have
Speaker 1: enough firepower to be Dallas. We'll talk about that next
Speaker 1: week after it happens or doesn't, But for now, the
Speaker 1: Packers keep on going. They always have great quarterbacks, and
Speaker 1: Jordan Love is one of them. Take number six. I
Speaker 1: really like the Texans. I like the Texans a lot.
Speaker 1: I sat there Saturday night, two and a half cocktails
Speaker 1: in some delivery food Washington. CJ. Stroud just look like
Speaker 1: a young sensation. I really like what they have going on.
Speaker 1: And let's face it, do you know where the Texans
Speaker 1: have come from. Let's just remind ourselves what the last
Speaker 1: few years have been like. I'm told David Cully was
Speaker 1: a real person and their head coach. I'm told Lovey
Speaker 1: Smith was their head coach. I still don't believe it happened.
Speaker 1: JJ leaves, DeShawn has a strange thing where he's healthy
Speaker 1: but doesn't play for a whole year. D hop leaves
Speaker 1: and this is now rising from the ashes what looks
Speaker 1: like a cool, fun, fresh, likable, relatable team with the
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback already. C J. Strad looks great. He's fearless,
Speaker 1: he's accurate, he's smiley, he's positive. His body language is incredible.
Speaker 1: I like the Texans. I like the Texans a lot.
Speaker 1: Take number seven. I don't want Bill Belichick to be
Speaker 1: my head coach moving forward. I'm not saying that as
Speaker 1: a Patriots fan or is a Patriots player. I'm saying
Speaker 1: it to somewhere where he may go to. There's all
Speaker 1: this talk about if Bill leaves New England, where will
Speaker 1: he go? Will he have his choice? There's interest from Washington,
Speaker 1: and they're enamored with him. If you're a fan of
Speaker 1: the Commanders or anybody who's gonna be looking for a coach,
Speaker 1: do you want Bill Belichick? Now understand this. I can
Speaker 1: respect what he's done without wanting him to do more
Speaker 1: of it or try to do more of it for
Speaker 1: my team. It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people I think who are loath to
Speaker 1: criticize Belichick is what he's meant to the league, and
Speaker 1: that he is actually a football icon. I love what
Speaker 1: he's done. You understand that he hasn't done a long
Speaker 1: damn time. And if you hire Hi as your head coach,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's not going to be on the team, and
Speaker 1: Vince will Fork and Willie McGuinness and Dion Branch and
Speaker 1: Teddy Bruski, those guys aren't on the team. You get
Speaker 1: Belichick now in twenty twenty four, in his seventies. With him,
Speaker 1: you get his record without Brady, you get his bad
Speaker 1: draft record. You get whatever's happened to Mac Jones, all
Speaker 1: that legacy. You want to say, tell me you're gonna
Speaker 1: draft a quarterback in the first round and have Bill
Speaker 1: Belichick develop him. I don't know. I'm just not into it.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to disrespect Bill Belichick. But we got young,
Speaker 1: brilliant offensive coaches falling out of Try get me a McDaniel,
Speaker 1: a lafleur, a McVeigh, a tailor. You keep going. Take
Speaker 1: number eight. Ron Rivera is a great man. I hope
Speaker 1: he plays a lot of golf with his wonderful wife, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: I love Ron Rivera. I think everybody in the league does.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of winning going on for them, though
Speaker 1: they had to move on from him. But please don't
Speaker 1: make it the Belichick thing. If the hallmark right now
Speaker 1: of the Commanders is new owner, new future, new everything,
Speaker 1: you can't go for this old retread head coach from
Speaker 1: another franchise and hope he's gonna make magic. Choose someone young,
Speaker 1: offensive and new. Please take number nine. My favorite playoff
Speaker 1: game of the wildcard round. You might not believe this.
Speaker 1: It's Pittsburgh at Buffalo. What a wild time this is
Speaker 1: going to be maybe the two best fan bases in
Speaker 1: the entire league together in one spot. The Steelers fans
Speaker 1: will find a way into Buffalo. They always do. Do
Speaker 1: you know Mason Rudolph has more games this year with
Speaker 1: a one to ten passer rating than Mahomes and Herbert
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph and I feel like the only touchdowns he
Speaker 1: throws are seventy yards long. It's really fun to watch. No.
Speaker 1: TJ Is gonna be tough, but Bill's dealers in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: My favorite? How about take number ten, Ezekiel Elliott with
Speaker 1: the take of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: It's funny. When I was younger, I always wanted to
Speaker 2: play a game in the snow. Finally got to play
Speaker 2: a game in the snow, and I'm like, it's kind
Speaker 2: of sucks.
Speaker 1: Zeke. I don't think that's the snow. I think that's
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I don't think playing in the snow sucks.
Speaker 1: I think playing for the twenty twenty three Patriots sucks.
Speaker 1: I had more to stand all these things, but that's
Speaker 1: the discipline. You must have. It. It's delivered special just
Speaker 1: for you. Twenty twenty four Wild Card Round impending edition
Speaker 1: will be back next week. You'll be back next week.
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