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Speaker 2: Hoop, you had a great weekend, everybody. Gang's all here
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Speaker 2: and we get ready for a national title game coming
Speaker 2: up tonight. Although I'm listening to ESPN promoting this and
Speaker 2: it's David versus Goliath. Huh, excuse me? Notre Dame a David.
Speaker 2: I don't think so. Now you might look at the
Speaker 2: point spread and say eight eight and a half. But
Speaker 2: Notre Dame one of the more storied, maybe the most
Speaker 2: storied franchise of all time in college football history, going
Speaker 2: against the Ohio State. So that'll be coming up tonight.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk to Ryan Clark of the Mothership.
Speaker 2: His son plays for Notre Dame. He's a defensive back.
Speaker 2: He'll be playing in the National title game tonight, so
Speaker 2: he'll join us a little double duty with a father
Speaker 2: watching his son, but also we'll recap some of the
Speaker 2: football with him Steve Young, the Hall of Famer. A
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Speaker 2: Notre Dame versus Ohio State Chiefs handled the Texans, Commanders
Speaker 2: shock the Lions, Eagles hold off the Rams, and the
Speaker 2: Bills hold off the Ravens. Also the head coaching vacancies
Speaker 2: that will change probably this week. Bear's Cowboys, Jets, Jags, Raiders, Saints.
Speaker 2: Couldn't help but think about the Cowboys over the weekend,
Speaker 2: certainly when you see that the Eagles and Commanders are
Speaker 2: facing each other in the NFC title game. Also you
Speaker 2: have Dan Quinn, who was defensive coordinator with the Cowboys,
Speaker 2: who's with the Commanders. And also Kellen Moore, who was
Speaker 2: an offensive coordinator for the Cowboys, the offensive coordinator for
Speaker 2: the Eagles. Do they interview Kellen Moore? They gonna Well,
Speaker 2: if they do, they have to wait a little while here.
Speaker 2: But the fact that you had him and you had
Speaker 2: Dan Quinn, you let both get out of the building
Speaker 2: and you're still looking for a head coach feels like
Speaker 2: I don't have any information on this. It feels like
Speaker 2: we're starting to see the temperature on Dion going to
Speaker 2: Dallas lower a little bit.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: I think it was nice, it was fun, and everybody
Speaker 2: grabbed it, ran with it and speculated. But it feels
Speaker 2: like maybe that's been tempered just a little bit. So
Speaker 2: we'll keep an eye on what could happen this week
Speaker 2: now with Ben Jonson and Aaron Glenn, the coordinators with
Speaker 2: the Lions available to do interviews, have a poll question,
Speaker 2: play of the day, stat of the day, all of
Speaker 2: that forthcoming, and the early conference championship betting lines. According
Speaker 2: to DraftKings, the Commanders are getting five and a half
Speaker 2: against the Eagles. The Bills are getting one and a
Speaker 2: half against the Chiefs. I also found this interesting, the
Speaker 2: best odds to win the Super Bowl. Well, I'm not
Speaker 2: so prized at this. I think the Eagles had been
Speaker 2: the best team in football for quite some time. Then
Speaker 2: it's the Chiefs Bills Commanders a distant fourth here, But
Speaker 2: the early odds to win the Super Bowl MVP. It's
Speaker 2: two players who have the best dods. If you said
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes, you'd be correct, and if you said Josh Allen,
Speaker 2: you would be correct. Both can't be in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: but they both have the best odds, followed by Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley, and Jaden Daniels. This was really a Saquon
Speaker 2: Barkley weekend. In a Jaden Daniels weekend. Now we can
Speaker 2: talk about what happened with the Bills and the Ravens,
Speaker 2: with Lamar and Mark Andrews, the Bills defense holding up
Speaker 2: when they needed to, the Eagles holding off the Rams.
Speaker 2: Chiefs against the Texans. Yes, there's going to be conversation.
Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes gets all the calls. He doesn't, but I
Speaker 2: think because they're always on National TV, when he does
Speaker 2: get a call, it stands out more than anybody else.
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan got calls, Lebron got calls. This has happened before.
Speaker 2: Tom Brady got calls, at least in our minds. You
Speaker 2: say they get all the breaks. Well, these games are
Speaker 2: always in front of us. Therefore, when you see something
Speaker 2: like this, you remember it's kind of burnt into our
Speaker 2: brains here. But the chiefs of the Texans, and I
Speaker 2: know the Texans there, you know they're complaining.
Speaker 1: About we had to beat the officials.
Speaker 2: If that's your mindset going into a game against Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes feels like you're kind of defeated. Hey, we knew
Speaker 2: we had to beat the referees as well. Well, you
Speaker 2: might have had to beat the referees, but it would
Speaker 2: have helped if you kept the Chiefs from beating up
Speaker 2: your quarterback. You had over one hundred yards more of
Speaker 2: total offense, You didn't have any turnovers. You have no
Speaker 2: excuses other than your excuses that you didn't take care
Speaker 2: of business. Did Mahomes get a call there or to yes,
Speaker 2: probably did so, Probably so, or at least the letter
Speaker 2: of the law with the NFL, But they had opportunities.
Speaker 2: You can't have your quarterback get pressured, hurried over twenty
Speaker 2: times and get sacked what eight times?
Speaker 1: I mean he was hit fourteen times.
Speaker 2: That's on you, not on the officiating, not on Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs do just enough and you have to do
Speaker 2: just a little bit more, and you didn't do that.
Speaker 2: So I don't want to hear the complaining from the Texans.
Speaker 2: You had a great season, you had an odd season.
Speaker 2: You came back and you had impressive football there at
Speaker 2: the end of the season, But you guys lost the game.
Speaker 2: You had your opportunities in the red zone, don't miss kicks.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of blame that goes around.
Speaker 2: Let's not start with the officiating, start with yourself. The
Speaker 2: commander's shocking the Lions. That was one of those where wow,
Speaker 2: somebody better slow down Washington and they couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: And the Lions, you know, they did their part from
Speaker 2: the standpoint of they put up points and they had yardage,
Speaker 2: but you had turnovers.
Speaker 1: And that's the big difference.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: We saw this with Jared Goff, and we saw this
Speaker 2: with Sam Darnold, like you're like, okay, all right, hey,
Speaker 2: these guys are looking good and then they weren't looking
Speaker 2: good and then all of a sudden, we seem to
Speaker 2: regress back to yeah, kind of the same old Like,
Speaker 2: is this the ceiling for Jared Goff? Maybe they had
Speaker 2: a wonderful season and they had a lot of injuries
Speaker 2: to overcome, and man, was there some pain in Dan
Speaker 2: Campbell's voice after the loss.
Speaker 4: And you lose these games. Man, it's like the players,
Speaker 4: what they put into it. A lot of people don't know,
Speaker 4: you know, what they go through. You have to get
Speaker 4: up bodies, beaches, you know, mentally, start locked on and
Speaker 4: do those things so long season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, tough, because if you're a lines fan, some
Speaker 2: of you, probably a lot.
Speaker 1: Of you book flights to New Orleans.
Speaker 2: And I understand why you would, because he thought, all right,
Speaker 2: this is our We're the team of destiny. You start
Speaker 2: to believe that until you realize you're not the team
Speaker 2: of destiny. That might be Washington, might be Philadelphia, might
Speaker 2: be Kansas City, maybe it's Buffalo's turn this year. But
Speaker 2: these losses, I mean, this is what you take into
Speaker 2: the off season. Imagine you're Mark Andrews. You've been the
Speaker 2: security blanket for Lamar Jackson his entire career. All else fails,
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews is open. If you would have said to
Speaker 2: me last night at halftime, Hey, by the way, it's
Speaker 2: going to come down to Lamar throwing a pass to
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews. How do you feel about it? Game on
Speaker 2: the line, I'd see, yeah, love it. Of all the
Speaker 2: people that I would want with my hands on the ball,
Speaker 2: it would be him. Mark Andrews. Always reliable. Now you
Speaker 2: had the fumble where they punched the ball out. I
Speaker 2: don't know why he was trying to juke somebody to
Speaker 2: get more yards there, but he did. But it came
Speaker 2: down to the two point conversion and Lamar rolling out. Now,
Speaker 2: I said at the time, I know we have revisionist
Speaker 2: history a lot, but I wanted to see, and I've
Speaker 2: said this all year long. All I wanted to see
Speaker 2: is whatever was made Baltimore successful.
Speaker 1: They stayed with that in the postseason.
Speaker 2: I got Derrick Henry and I'm not using Derrick Henry
Speaker 2: at the end of the game. I would love to
Speaker 2: have had Lamar and Derrick Henry and say, you guys
Speaker 2: pick your poison, try to stop one of us, and
Speaker 2: they didn't do it. Here is Lamar after the game
Speaker 2: talking about turnovers.
Speaker 3: It's a team effort, buzz.
Speaker 5: It is behind making places happening out down that SPF
Speaker 5: four US came up short. And like I've been saying
Speaker 5: all season, every time we had situations like this, turnovers
Speaker 5: pare fattor Pennanti is caff fattor today twelve tonight the
Speaker 5: turnover had you know, that's why we lost the game,
Speaker 5: because as you.
Speaker 6: Can see, moving the ball wonderfully is hold on.
Speaker 7: To the ball.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry for my language, car No, I'm talking.
Speaker 1: Derreck Henry had sixteen carries.
Speaker 2: I thought, in this kind of game against that defense,
Speaker 2: at least twenty twenty five carries. I don't know what
Speaker 2: the downside is with that. You've been this guy ran
Speaker 2: for nineteen hundred yards, so it's not like you go, hey.
Speaker 1: You know what, we're thinking about doing something different.
Speaker 2: This is what you did. He averaged five and a
Speaker 2: half yards per carry. Don't get out of your comfort zone.
Speaker 2: Do what you do well. I mean, Buffalo's defense is
Speaker 2: not formidable. It's it's a ben don't break defense. I
Speaker 2: thought that they would just go here, we go, Hey,
Speaker 2: Derek's getting the ball, try to stop him, or you
Speaker 2: have Lamar as well. But look, you get in these
Speaker 2: moments and it's one play or two plays, and that's
Speaker 2: your season.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: This is what it sounded like last night. With the
Speaker 2: potential game tying two point conversion for the tie the
Speaker 2: two point conversion, Lamar takes a snap roll to the right, throws.
Speaker 1: Complete all he dropped it.
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews hit him in the wounds, and Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: Dropped it as he fell into the end zone.
Speaker 6: One of the more surehanded players the Ravens in Raven's history,
Speaker 6: dropped it, hitting right in the.
Speaker 2: Hands yep I think and even Jim Nants thought that
Speaker 2: he had caught it just because of the angle there.
Speaker 2: And it's Mark Andrews because he should have caught it.
Speaker 2: Does it come down to him? Yes it does. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that play extends, extends the game and extends their season.
Speaker 1: Is it the reason why they lost?
Speaker 2: No, but that will be the singular play that will
Speaker 2: look at that they and the other play will be
Speaker 2: when the ball got punched out because Josh Allen didn't
Speaker 2: play great. But what I loved about Josh Allen, and
Speaker 2: I preached this all year long, he's learning. He's learned
Speaker 2: how to play the position. He doesn't have to be superman.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have to try so much, try so hard,
Speaker 2: Fewer turnovers. That's how you win these games. Nothing fancy,
Speaker 2: just no mistakes. And that's the difference in this game.
Speaker 8: Yes, there was a point in time where the Ravens
Speaker 8: had the ball. It was first in goal from the
Speaker 8: two and I don't know how you don't give Dereck
Speaker 8: Henry the bass four straight times, so there's no way
Speaker 8: you're keeping him from getting those two yards four straight times.
Speaker 1: And I don't know that they gave it to him
Speaker 1: once crazy to me.
Speaker 2: It did remind me of marshn Lynch, like they have
Speaker 2: to give it to him. The super Bowl's on the line,
Speaker 2: He's right there.
Speaker 1: Just run it in. Give it to this dude. What
Speaker 1: do you throwing it for?
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Speaker 9: Derrick Henry had five carries on that touchdown drive the
Speaker 9: Ravens had the third quarter and the other eight drives
Speaker 9: that they had, he carried the ball eleven times. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I have to double check that stat of the day,
Speaker 9: stat of the day, that past stat of the day,
Speaker 9: stat of the day.
Speaker 1: Here comes that what stat of the day.
Speaker 2: Creativity can be overrated sometimes, How time we just do
Speaker 2: something really simple, just simple. Don't have to you know,
Speaker 2: you don't have to do trickery. You don't have to
Speaker 2: be Ben Johnson in the lines. Just sometimes you just
Speaker 2: go here it comes and it's gonna hurt, yes, Tod,
Speaker 2: But then you.
Speaker 3: Can do that.
Speaker 10: And then if you get stopped and it doesn't work out,
Speaker 10: you know there's gonna be people saying they knew that
Speaker 10: was going to happen. Why would you do the same
Speaker 10: thing that they're waiting for. The Eagles got away with it.
Speaker 10: Everyone knew Saquon Barkley was going to get the ball,
Speaker 10: and he destroyed them even though.
Speaker 1: They knew this was going to happen. But Todd, you
Speaker 1: just answered your own question. Sometimes it works, sometimes it
Speaker 1: doesn't work. Obviously it didn't work for the Raves.
Speaker 10: Ilver thought it like, oh, they'll never expect this.
Speaker 1: They think we're just gonna.
Speaker 10: Have Lamar and Derek run the hole.
Speaker 2: When they stop him, we can have this conversation. They
Speaker 2: didn't stop him. It did not They knew that Saquon
Speaker 2: was going to run the ball. They couldn't stop him.
Speaker 2: And if I'm Buffalo God, I know that one of
Speaker 2: those two is gonna run the ball. I just had
Speaker 2: to factor in the web like I was blown away.
Speaker 2: I kept going, God, this is really simple, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: from the first hour of the program.
Speaker 8: Well, we got a few options here that we could
Speaker 8: start with. We could start with who had the best weekend?
Speaker 8: We'll start with who had the worst weekend? We can
Speaker 8: start with who Is that a tougher loss for the
Speaker 8: Lions of the Ravens.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: It feels like it's the Lions, Like I can hear
Speaker 2: it in Dan Campbell's voice. I don't know if John
Speaker 2: Harbaugh's voice. Can you play John Harball talking about Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: Let me hear his voice. There's nobody that.
Speaker 6: Has more heart and cares more and fights more than Mark.
Speaker 6: We wouldn't be here without Mark Andrews. That's what you
Speaker 6: say to him, So you know, it's like anything else.
Speaker 6: I mean, destiny is a decision that you make and
Speaker 6: it's how you handle what comes in your life. Now,
Speaker 6: Marko handled fantastic like he always does, because because he's
Speaker 6: a high character person, he's a tough person and he's
Speaker 6: a good person. So proud of him's a I'm proud
Speaker 6: of all.
Speaker 2: The guys, more of an uplifting Dan Campbell's like, I
Speaker 2: can't hide any of this.
Speaker 1: This emotion is deep, deep, yes. Hey.
Speaker 8: There was a moment just after halftime last night when
Speaker 8: John Harbaugh came out and he's doing the interview and
Speaker 8: they're like, hey, coach Joe, you know what we are
Speaker 8: going to say whatever this is in that second half
Speaker 8: you can start.
Speaker 1: Pluf and they're like, what do you say to Lamar Jackson?
Speaker 8: You know, sort of like a rough first half he
Speaker 8: had two turnovers or what do you say to Lamar
Speaker 8: Jackson going into the second half?
Speaker 1: He goes, I don't need to say anything to him.
Speaker 1: He knows what he's doing.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't need to say anything. It's Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: He's good.
Speaker 8: He knows that he shouldn't have done those two things,
Speaker 8: and he knows what he needs to do moving forward.
Speaker 8: He's fine.
Speaker 2: It doesn't happen often, you know. And I had an
Speaker 2: unbelievable season. It's just like justin Herbert, what did he
Speaker 2: have three interceptions? And then he surpasses that. Lamar Jackson doesn't,
Speaker 2: you know what four interceptions? They don't turn the ball
Speaker 2: over and then what do they do? Interception and I
Speaker 2: think maybe the re ran the wrong route and then
Speaker 2: you know, fumbles.
Speaker 1: It's just.
Speaker 2: It's so small the margin between you win or you lose,
Speaker 2: and that's why Buffalo moved on. I don't think they
Speaker 2: tried to play any different than they had all season long,
Speaker 2: and it felt like Boldemort got away, just like last year,
Speaker 2: Just like last year.
Speaker 1: We'll take a break.
Speaker 2: Ryan Clark got a busy day, busy night, and busy
Speaker 2: week covering the NFL for the Mothership. His son is
Speaker 2: playing in the National title game for Notre Dame. We'll
Speaker 2: touch on both of those topics right after this Dan
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Speaker 2: Get to your phone calls as we always do every Monday,
Speaker 2: Best and Worst to the Weekend. It was a while
Speaker 2: back that I mentioned here's a wild card MVP candidate.
Speaker 2: Nobody would had brought his name up, but watching him
Speaker 2: play for his team and what he meant for his
Speaker 2: team Jalen Carter, and I mentioned it on the show
Speaker 2: that he's one of those that you don't think of
Speaker 2: because it's an offensive driven award. Jalen Carter probably made
Speaker 2: the biggest play of the game last night, and just
Speaker 2: that disruptive force there. And he's different because you don't
Speaker 2: have those kind that's he's like old school. You know
Speaker 2: his size, but he's a disruptor. And then obviously with
Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels, I said, he's not going to win the MVP,
Speaker 2: but if you talk about lifting up a culture, he
Speaker 2: changed a culture that had been there for two decades.
Speaker 2: He gave them hope. And it's not about numbers. It's
Speaker 2: just when he's on the field, he gives you hope
Speaker 2: you have a chance. And that's why I thought, I
Speaker 2: hope he's the top five MVP candidate, certainly with what
Speaker 2: he did in the regular season. All Right, we got
Speaker 2: football tonight, National Title game, Ryan Clark, you know he's
Speaker 2: got a busy week coming up. You got to talk
Speaker 2: football and then you got to talk about college football.
Speaker 2: His son is playing tonight in the National Title Game.
Speaker 2: He's also got NFL Live duties as well. How nervous
Speaker 2: are you, oh, I'm.
Speaker 3: Fricker or right it is.
Speaker 12: You know, we got opportunity to play two Super Bowls
Speaker 12: as a family. But these last few weeks have been
Speaker 12: absolutely amazing to you know, see your son sort of
Speaker 12: live a dream, see your son make a decision that
Speaker 12: was tough on him. In the offseason. He wanted to
Speaker 12: stay at ASU. He felt like that's where his loyalty
Speaker 12: should be.
Speaker 3: I can be honest.
Speaker 12: As parents, we thought it was best for him to leave,
Speaker 12: and we had those conversations and when he kind of
Speaker 12: finally acquiesced to what we wanted and started to take trips,
Speaker 12: when he chose Notre Dame, I was elated.
Speaker 3: It was my dream school.
Speaker 12: But you know, in week two when they lose to NIU,
Speaker 12: and then as the season and goes along and Arizona
Speaker 12: State's playing extremely.
Speaker 3: Well, you're like, holy hell, did did we make a mistake?
Speaker 12: Did we push him into something that's not going to
Speaker 12: be positive for him? So for him to be in
Speaker 12: this moment, having beaten Georgia, having beaten Penn State, and
Speaker 12: now an opportunity in my opinion, to play the most
Speaker 12: talented team in college football, but certainly the most talented.
Speaker 3: Group of wide receivers, knowing the way that they're going
Speaker 3: to play.
Speaker 12: I think it's just been an amazing year, amazing opportunity
Speaker 12: for him to show who he is. But as a
Speaker 12: team and Marcus Freeman and what that school has been,
Speaker 12: the tradition in which Notre Dame plays with each.
Speaker 3: And every week.
Speaker 12: It has really been one of the best experiences of
Speaker 12: my athletic career.
Speaker 3: But to see him do it, I mean, as a parent,
Speaker 3: there's nothing better.
Speaker 2: More likely to talk to him more today or less
Speaker 2: likely to talk to him today.
Speaker 3: No, we don't change anything.
Speaker 12: VP Like, that's the cool part about having been through
Speaker 12: it as a faller and my wife having been through
Speaker 12: it as a wife and now going through it as
Speaker 12: a mother, you know, like we understand what happens. He
Speaker 12: kind of dictates how much we talk, how much we
Speaker 12: see him on game weekends, and the one thing for him,
Speaker 12: he's like, pop, I don't want to change a lot
Speaker 12: because it's the championship. And so we got an opportunity
Speaker 12: to visit with him last night. Thousands of parents and
Speaker 12: families and friends were there also with their loved ones
Speaker 12: from the team, and he honestly stayed and talked to
Speaker 12: us longer than he normally does, so he got to
Speaker 12: see some family members he hadn't seen in the wild.
Speaker 12: But today he say he's going to wake up with
Speaker 12: no clock. He'll go to walk through and take a nap,
Speaker 12: study film, and then he'll be ready to go.
Speaker 3: We have a ritual and you know this will be
Speaker 3: the last time we do it.
Speaker 12: Always wait in the same exact spot for him before
Speaker 12: every game, And it started last year where I just
Speaker 12: write him a little note. I thought last year would
Speaker 12: be his last, but it ended up getting injured and
Speaker 12: coming back, and so this would be the last time
Speaker 12: I get to do it.
Speaker 3: I'll do it from the.
Speaker 12: Field because it's obviously is pn game, but for me,
Speaker 12: it's like the it's the best part of the day.
Speaker 3: I get to help you.
Speaker 12: I get to tell him I love him, I get
Speaker 12: to hand him over a few words he gets to
Speaker 12: read before every game. And uh, you know this would
Speaker 12: be our last time doing it in college ball.
Speaker 1: Gonna have a lot of emotions there.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm a cry. I didn't I didn't like as
Speaker 12: a player. Honestly, we won the Super Bowl. I didn't
Speaker 12: cry when we lost the Super Bowl. I didn't cry.
Speaker 12: I've cried more in these last three weeks than I
Speaker 12: like to admit, which I.
Speaker 3: Am admitting to you now publicly.
Speaker 12: But I think that it just shows you how much
Speaker 12: it matters, how much different it is.
Speaker 2: But your son's going against some pretty good wide receivers.
Speaker 2: I would think you've had conversations on dad, what do
Speaker 2: you see?
Speaker 3: No, not really.
Speaker 12: It's been a cool evolution of his playing career.
Speaker 3: We were driving in the eighth grade.
Speaker 12: I forget where we were going, and he turns to
Speaker 12: me and he's like, Pop, i'd love to play a
Speaker 12: college sport. And at the time he loved basketball too.
Speaker 12: I was like, well, Saturday gonna be basketball. I've seen
Speaker 12: you do that, you know. I was like, you can
Speaker 12: play that to have fun. And I said, and it's
Speaker 12: going to have to be at defensive back. And he's like, well,
Speaker 12: why I play wide receiver for two I was like,
Speaker 12: you know, I've been around those guys and I've watched
Speaker 12: him catch footballs.
Speaker 3: Like it's just different. I said, but I can help
Speaker 3: you be a defensive back.
Speaker 12: And he broke his ankle probably six months later playing basketball,
Speaker 12: and so we kind of had to rehab him back
Speaker 12: from that, get him prepared for a sophomore year, went
Speaker 12: to really competitive high school, and I mean, man, we've
Speaker 12: slept at some of the worst hotels to go to
Speaker 12: some of these football camps. We have been on planes,
Speaker 12: we've driven, and it was just that journey. And so
Speaker 12: every high school game in sophomore year, I graded the film,
Speaker 12: I grade every play, and we'd watch it together. And
Speaker 12: then the next year I grade every play and he'd
Speaker 12: watch it by himself. And so it's kind of evolved
Speaker 12: whereas to know, he's his old man when it comes
Speaker 12: to football. If you ask me a question, I'll answer it.
Speaker 12: A lot of times. He's telling me what he sees,
Speaker 12: he's telling me what he has to do, He's telling
Speaker 12: me how Al wants them to play.
Speaker 3: And I think it is just the coolest.
Speaker 2: Thing in the world is Ryan Clark in the Mothership
Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl with the Steelers and weekdays for
Speaker 2: Eastern on NFL Live, I was just talking about the
Speaker 2: Ravens all season long. I said, I don't care what
Speaker 2: you do during the regular season. I want to see
Speaker 2: what your game plan is going to be in the postseason.
Speaker 2: I want to see if you stay with what made
Speaker 2: you successful. You got a great running back, and you
Speaker 2: didn't stay with that running back in the second half,
Speaker 2: a running back who is really good. In the second half,
Speaker 2: they had one drive, they score time. I'm just trying
Speaker 2: to understand the philosophy of the Ravens and why it
Speaker 2: seemed to change a little bit yesterday against the Buffalo
Speaker 2: defense that I thought you could run against.
Speaker 3: I thought early on they didn't have the sort of
Speaker 3: success they wanted to have, and when you go throughout
Speaker 3: the season with Todd Munkin, that's what we see.
Speaker 12: You know, there are the games that Derrick Henry doesn't
Speaker 12: rush for one hundred yards, they don't win. And I
Speaker 12: think people try to correlate that to continuously or consistently
Speaker 12: giving Derrick Henry the ball. But I think also in
Speaker 12: those games he didn't start out with early success, and
Speaker 12: so without that early success, when they go to eleven
Speaker 12: personnel which is three wide receivers or twelve personnel, which.
Speaker 3: They love to use, Isaiah likely in that way, it.
Speaker 12: Becomes a Justice Hill game a little bit in the
Speaker 12: past game, or it becomes a Lamar Jackson drop back
Speaker 12: pass game.
Speaker 3: And I think even with Derrick Henry not having.
Speaker 12: Early success, I thought in the second half he put
Speaker 12: his imprint on the game, like, that's not why they lost, right,
Speaker 12: you go to the first half and it wasn't the
Speaker 12: interception by Lamar Jackson that think they went three and
Speaker 12: out after that. But it's the big fumble, the DeMar
Speaker 12: Hamlin tackle with the return by Von Miller. It's the
Speaker 12: fumble of Mark Andrews where you have an opportunity to score.
Speaker 12: And then as great as Mark Andrews is, we all
Speaker 12: expect him to catch that pass on the two point conversion,
Speaker 12: and so yes, I think the Derrick Henry piece of
Speaker 12: it is huge. But I thought he did enough in
Speaker 12: the second half to help his team. I thought Todd
Speaker 12: Munkin turned to him in the right situations and during
Speaker 12: the right scenarios. But it's about making plays. When Bernard
Speaker 12: punches that ball out from Mark Andrews, that's making the play.
Speaker 12: Mark Andrews didn't just drop that, and then obviously you
Speaker 12: have to catch the ball on the two point conversion
Speaker 12: as well.
Speaker 2: Is Josh Allen consciously more conscious or like a where
Speaker 2: like situational football We always talk about that, but he
Speaker 2: just seems like, hey, I normally would try to do
Speaker 2: a little more. Feels like he's got maybe a seat
Speaker 2: belt on, and it's a wise thing.
Speaker 1: Is that conscious?
Speaker 3: Yeah? And you know, I don't even know, you know, DP.
Speaker 12: I don't want to call it a seat belt because
Speaker 12: people will say or they'll think it's a negative thing.
Speaker 3: And what you're saying is true. It's positive. He understands,
Speaker 3: let's not go lose the game.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: When people talk about him not winning the.
Speaker 12: MVP last year, they always point to his stats, saying
Speaker 12: how much.
Speaker 3: Better they were than Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 12: But he also had eighteen interceptions and that was a
Speaker 12: way to hurt his team. This year, he cut that
Speaker 12: number down tremendously. But when you watch him, he's taking
Speaker 12: what the defense gives him. If it's a third and four,
Speaker 12: he has no problem only getting five yards, only getting
Speaker 12: six yards.
Speaker 3: He's not trying to take the shots down the field.
Speaker 12: He's playing with the level of efficiency and impatience that matters.
Speaker 3: But to me also like a.
Speaker 12: Joy of not being sort of forced into doing certain
Speaker 12: things to get people the ball, not doing certain things
Speaker 12: to prove a point. He seems extremely relaxed and comfortable
Speaker 12: in who he is and who he's playing with. And
Speaker 12: because of that efficiency, because of that patience because being
Speaker 12: of playing risk averse. That's why this team wins this
Speaker 12: football game. One team turns the ball over, the other
Speaker 12: team doesn't.
Speaker 1: More surprised the Ravens lost, or the Lions lost.
Speaker 12: Lions Lions, And it's just like this weird thing because
Speaker 12: when you think about all the defensive players the.
Speaker 3: Lions have lost, it makes total sense.
Speaker 12: Amik Robinson, who have been playing well on the outside,
Speaker 12: he gets hurt very early on.
Speaker 3: In that game, and so it's not one of those things.
Speaker 12: Oh, you know, there isn't a reason why they couldn't
Speaker 12: get stops defensively, but they had been losing all those
Speaker 12: people the entire year. You know, most of those players
Speaker 12: weren't available against Minnesota when they took them to the woodshed.
Speaker 3: And a winner take all game in.
Speaker 12: The last week of the season, and so it was
Speaker 12: surprising to see just how bad they were defensively, but
Speaker 12: also the turnovers and interceptions by Jared Golf, which truly
Speaker 12: caused them the game, because when you think of some
Speaker 12: of the games they had to win down the stretch
Speaker 12: without those injuries, it was because the offense was unstoppable
Speaker 12: and offense protected the ball.
Speaker 3: They didn't do those things against Washington, and it cost them.
Speaker 2: The public perception, national perception is Mahomes gets calls that
Speaker 2: other quarterbacks don't get. As a former defensive player, your
Speaker 2: thoughts on that topic.
Speaker 12: Well, I think a lot of quarterbacks get calls that
Speaker 12: they shouldn't get, right. I think there is a conscious
Speaker 12: effort to protect quarterbacks at all costs.
Speaker 7: And.
Speaker 3: Officials are humans, then they just are like they know
Speaker 3: which ones are different. We felt the same way about
Speaker 3: Tom Brady, right, and we weren't wrong. Think about it.
Speaker 12: When Tom Brady gets hurt in the first game of
Speaker 12: the two thousand and eight season, there's an entire rule
Speaker 12: built the round the way he got hurt, right, which
Speaker 12: still stands today. You can't hit quarterbacks below the knee,
Speaker 12: and so there are these quarterbacks that are treated differently.
Speaker 12: I think when you see it on display at in
Speaker 12: such a large stage in slow motion, it feels to
Speaker 12: us like, Okay, that's just a bad call.
Speaker 3: Where they're cheating from Mahomes.
Speaker 12: But the Will Anderson play, we look at it and
Speaker 12: we go in slow motion like, yeah, he definitely didn't
Speaker 12: hit him in the head. When it's happening in real time,
Speaker 12: what is the official seat right, you go back to
Speaker 12: Sam Donald to get in his face mask like basically
Speaker 12: take it off against the Rams. Throughout the season, we're like, well,
Speaker 12: how you miss that? So maybe that's one of those
Speaker 12: things with Mahomes. The one that paid me the most
Speaker 12: was when he's running around, he doesn't really slide, he
Speaker 12: just kind of gives himself up and these guys are
Speaker 12: trying to tackle him. He's playing freaking dipsy do with
Speaker 12: the line on the outside and jumping around and cutting
Speaker 12: back in and holding the football.
Speaker 3: You can't call that.
Speaker 12: You can't give them fifteen yards and you can't give
Speaker 12: them an extra set of dollars and they end up
Speaker 12: scoring a touchdown on that drive that essentially puts makes
Speaker 12: it a two score game.
Speaker 3: Those calls have to be reviewable.
Speaker 12: If you don't want to review him during the season,
Speaker 12: that's fine, But you can't put a team like the
Speaker 12: Houston Texas that's scrapping and scraping and clawing to stay
Speaker 12: in the game with the two time defending Super Bowl
Speaker 12: champions in that sort of situation to where you can
Speaker 12: visibly see Demico Ryans biting his tongue after.
Speaker 3: The game to not say he felt cheated.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this analogy works for you, but
Speaker 2: later in Floyd Mayweather's career, it wasn't about trying to
Speaker 2: knock you out. He was just going to play defense.
Speaker 2: You ounce smart, you. Patrick, Mahomes is not blowing you
Speaker 2: away with stats. This isn't forty five to fifty touchdown passes.
Speaker 2: It's a I'm just going to to kind of spar
Speaker 2: with you, and then you're gonna make one or two mistakes,
Speaker 2: you leave Kelsey open, We're gonna score. You know, my
Speaker 2: defense is really the calling card of this team. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you see that, but I was kind
Speaker 2: of feeling like Mahomes at times doesn't seem like he's like,
Speaker 2: all I gotta worry. It's you know, those those times
Speaker 2: when I do have to worry, then he always delivers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's I think that's the key with
Speaker 3: him right now.
Speaker 12: This man has shown up so many times in critical
Speaker 12: situational football moments that he expects to.
Speaker 3: His team expects him to, hell the other team expects
Speaker 3: him to And.
Speaker 12: When we saw him get into trouble, was trying to
Speaker 12: relive those forty five fifty touchdown days without having forty
Speaker 12: five fifty touchdown.
Speaker 3: People to throw it too.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, and I think he's had to make
Speaker 12: that adjustment.
Speaker 3: I mean, Dan, you know, like we all have an ego, right,
Speaker 3: Like we.
Speaker 12: All feel like we're good at certain things and we
Speaker 12: want to be sort of seen and perceived that way.
Speaker 12: And for Patrick Mahomes, he was perceived and seen as
Speaker 12: the best quarterback on earth. And you want to be
Speaker 12: able to push the ball down the field. You want
Speaker 12: to be able to show those skills, but right now,
Speaker 12: that's not the way they can win football games. And ultimately,
Speaker 12: as you begin to win football games and you're no
Speaker 12: longer having sort of the statistical output that you used
Speaker 12: to have, but people are still saying, yeah, but you're
Speaker 12: the guy, right, Yeah, he doesn't, he won't win the MVP.
Speaker 3: This year, but everybody's chasing him.
Speaker 12: You start to realize that actually winning is more important
Speaker 12: than anything, and that's what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Are you sitting tonight watching this game?
Speaker 12: So I didn't sit the entire second half of the
Speaker 12: Penn State. I stood up the entire game, And so
Speaker 12: I don't know. I like to call myself like a
Speaker 12: calm dad, because I really am most part high school
Speaker 12: I didn't say much. Throughout all of his years in college,
Speaker 12: I didn't say much. I just kind of set off
Speaker 12: with myself and watched the games. But it's been impossible
Speaker 12: for Georgia, it was impossible for Penn State. Uh, and
Speaker 12: it'll probably be impossible for Ohio State tonight. I mean, hell,
Speaker 12: what I'm saving it for. This is my last day
Speaker 12: as a college football dad.
Speaker 1: Anyway, good luck to mom too.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, she the second half of Penn State.
Speaker 12: She just cleaned out her email, she said, she said, Uh,
Speaker 12: she's like, I can't watch anymore, Like this game has
Speaker 12: my Like her her watch kept telling her her heart
Speaker 12: rate was high, and so she's like, yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 12: clean out my emails. And so I don't think she
Speaker 12: has any emails to clean out tonight, Dan, So maybe
Speaker 12: I'll just give her my phone because I have like
Speaker 12: eleven thousand underregulars.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to be a mess, hopefully in a
Speaker 2: good way. Hopefully I'm messing a good way.
Speaker 1: Europe.
Speaker 12: You know, you know what's crazy, Dad, Like, at the
Speaker 12: end of the game, you love all those moments, all
Speaker 12: those tense moments, all those stressful moments, because you win
Speaker 12: if you don't win, then it's just three and a
Speaker 12: half hours of your life. You know that you felt
Speaker 12: like you were going puke.
Speaker 1: Good look. Thanks for joining us, Ryan Man, thank you
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 3: Day every great day.
Speaker 2: That's Ryan Clark, his son Jordan's safety for Notre Dame.
Speaker 2: It's Ohio State and Notre Dame in the title game.
Speaker 1: We'll come back.
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Speaker 3: Of the day, This is the play of the day.
Speaker 3: Check this out wide open hundred eighty two.
Speaker 7: Run.
Speaker 1: This would sent into the T T TUO game.
Speaker 2: Mike Tariko, Chris Collinsworth with the calls. Saquon Barkley. I
Speaker 2: think the two meetings he had with the Rams, he
Speaker 2: had over four hundred and fifty yards rushing. He could
Speaker 2: end up passing Terrell Davis for the most rushing yards
Speaker 2: for an entire year. So that's regular season in postseason,
Speaker 2: and if they win this next game, they go to
Speaker 2: the super Bowl. He's probably going to do that. I
Speaker 2: think he's one hundred and sixty yards away from surpassing
Speaker 2: Terrell Davis for the most yards regular season, postseason combined.
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Speaker 13: Thank you for taking them up. Oh DP, it is
Speaker 13: surreal right now if I'm being honest, man, salute the
Speaker 13: commanders and thank you for having me this morning. What
Speaker 13: a great weekend of football we saw. I think you
Speaker 13: hit it man, Dereck Henry. The Ravens really missed opportunity.
Speaker 13: It should have been a Derek Henry show all day long.
Speaker 13: What here else can you say about the Chiefs Seven
Speaker 13: straight AFC championship games. Absolutely amazing to see what they
Speaker 13: can do. It's Mahomes magic. Takkwon Barkley just elevates the
Speaker 13: Eagles to a whole nother platform and he's going to
Speaker 13: be a monster next week for the Washington Commanders. Wow,
Speaker 13: Holy Molly, DP. The Washington Commander are in the NFC
Speaker 13: Championship for the first con since I was eight years
Speaker 13: old man nineteen ninety one, when they were the Washington
Speaker 13: Redskin tail to the Redskins. But it's a new era now.
Speaker 13: Guys are showing up and making plays defensively, forcing five
Speaker 13: turnovers in a game where you just hope for them
Speaker 13: to get a couple of scots, and they were massive
Speaker 13: turnovers throughout the whole game of Pick six on Jared
Speaker 13: Goff really changed the whole outlook. Diami Brown stepping up.
Speaker 13: He only had thirty catches all year, DP in a
Speaker 13: touchdown in the playoffs alone, eleven catches a touchdown almost
Speaker 13: two hundred yards receiving. What else can you say? Jayden
Speaker 13: five is alive. Oh my god, man, this guy, what
Speaker 13: he does to this team. He's not being carried by
Speaker 13: the team. He is carrying the team. Man. He does
Speaker 13: it all for his ability to elude pressure to make
Speaker 13: plays with his feat once again delivering from the pocket.
Speaker 13: He is sixty eight percent in two games, almost five
Speaker 13: hundred and seventy yards, passing four touchdowns, no interceptions, let
Speaker 13: alone the rushing man, Henry, have you.
Speaker 1: Bought your ticket to New Orleans yet?
Speaker 13: I was gonna ask you, man, I had my socks
Speaker 13: in the bag. I wasn't sure if you're gonna let
Speaker 13: me come down there or not. But I'm very excited. Man,
Speaker 13: I can't I tell you what. They certainly do have
Speaker 13: a chance. When you made that comment back in October,
Speaker 13: I laughed at all because it just seems so far away,
Speaker 13: you know, to watching the team when where they're coming from.
Speaker 13: But wow, it is a reality now, and the Washington
Speaker 13: fans can rejoice because they have a quarterback that they
Speaker 13: can root for. He does it the right way on
Speaker 13: and off the field. As you can tell. Man, I'm
Speaker 13: ober excited. I could go on and on.
Speaker 2: You got an open invitation to join us James in
Speaker 2: New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, that.
Speaker 13: Amazing, man. You know, you guys are too good to me. Man,
Speaker 13: you guys are too good to me. You know, I
Speaker 13: really appreciate it. Just a special year shout out to
Speaker 13: all the Washington fans. And you know, I'll tell you
Speaker 13: one last thing, man, the best thing that they did
Speaker 13: because they had to change their name, man. And I
Speaker 13: know there's so many people that love the Redskins monitor
Speaker 13: and the Redskins name, but they kept the burgundy and gold.
Speaker 13: And that is what is true to all Redskins fans
Speaker 13: when you and Washington fans when you, when you talk
Speaker 13: to them, man, the burguney and gold.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I love those uniforms. I love those uniforms. James, I
Speaker 2: gotta go. Congratulations, have a great day, Buddy's all right,
Speaker 2: Salute the commanders and your wife with the baby. Do
Speaker 2: in August and we'll maybe see you in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: Gus in La, Hi, Gus, Good.
Speaker 7: Morning, mister Patrick. Hope you're and the boys are doing well. Hey,
Speaker 7: salute the Commanders. That's got to be the best of
Speaker 7: the weekend, man, that's the weekend. I was able to
Speaker 7: watch the game this past weekend with the buddy of mine.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately he lost everything, so it was good to be
Speaker 7: able to rally around and get back to some laughs
Speaker 7: and get back to a little bit of normalcy, and
Speaker 7: we got to watch one of the biggest upsets. I
Speaker 7: told my buddy, I was like, it seems like ever
Speaker 7: since they made the playoffs. They have been playing with
Speaker 7: house money and they're letting it all ride every single play.
Speaker 7: Who goes for fourth down that many times in a
Speaker 7: playoff game. I mean, these boys are letting it show.
Speaker 7: I love what I'm saying. It's great. It was awesome.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 7: Too much bad in the world right now for me
Speaker 7: to focus on a worse I'm not going to mention
Speaker 7: Mark Andrews. You know, you boys will go into how
Speaker 7: it was not his fault. But you know, hey, a
Speaker 7: great weeknd of football. The Rams did us proud here
Speaker 7: in LA. But you know what, the Eagles are going
Speaker 7: to march forward. The Eagles. I believe the Eagles are
Speaker 7: going to go on unfortunately slut the Commanders, but I
Speaker 7: think the Eagles say kwon, that offensive.
Speaker 3: Line is too strong.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Gus. Steve Young will join us. Coming up
Speaker 2: next down. James in Virginia got another baby on the
Speaker 2: way Commanders in the NFC title game. Wow, best and
Speaker 2: worst of the weekend. More phone calls coming up hour
Speaker 2: two on this Monday. Right after this