1
00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,719
Speaker 1: Welcome to NFL Daily, where we always have the strength

2
00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,000
Speaker 1: of victory tiebreaker.

3
00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:11,520
Speaker 2: I'm Greg Rosethal.

4
00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm in the Chris Westling podcast studio, solo in the studio,

5
00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:22,920
Speaker 1: but joined by knowledgeable, wonderful friends all around the country.

6
00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:24,320
Speaker 2: In fact, Patrick Claybon.

7
00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,560
Speaker 1: Is in the vo booth because he's feeling a little

8
00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,120
Speaker 1: bit sick about sixty yards for me, and Nick Shook

9
00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,440
Speaker 1: is in Cleveland. Welcome Patrick, and thank you for your

10
00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:35,040
Speaker 1: consideration for not wanting to get everyone sick.

11
00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:36,559
Speaker 2: It's too nice of you.

12
00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:38,280
Speaker 3: Well, it's you know, it's the holiday season.

13
00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,560
Speaker 4: Everybody's we got people flying all over the planet and

14
00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,880
Speaker 4: all over the country. And if I could sit over

15
00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,320
Speaker 4: here in this lonely box for this podcast, then that

16
00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:47,360
Speaker 4: is what I am going to do.

17
00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:48,880
Speaker 2: Well, finally, it shook us company.

18
00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,599
Speaker 1: You're used to sitting in a lonely box during the show, shook, Yeah, this.

19
00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:54,760
Speaker 5: Box is more of a bedroom, but yeah, pretty much.

20
00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:56,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

21
00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,200
Speaker 1: Patrick sent me this text at eight in the morning,

22
00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,600
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, you just we can figure it out.

23
00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,480
Speaker 1: You can just take the show off, but look, the

24
00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,080
Speaker 1: NFL it's not gonna allow it. And Patrick, he knows

25
00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,640
Speaker 1: the show must go on. There are playoff spots being clinched,

26
00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:15,240
Speaker 1: there are seedings being figured out. We learned a lot

27
00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,320
Speaker 1: about how this playoff field is gonna look on Sunday,

28
00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:22,600
Speaker 1: and no result was bigger than the one in landover Maryland.

29
00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:23,240
Speaker 2: Let's head there.

30
00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:26,520
Speaker 6: Second of goal to ten snapped, the Daniels Eagles break four,

31
00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:27,400
Speaker 6: into the middle.

32
00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,880
Speaker 3: Of talk down.

33
00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:38,160
Speaker 7: The cruner, amazing clunch football from the ones and in

34
00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:42,240
Speaker 7: on that dang done it again, don't it again? This

35
00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:47,160
Speaker 7: is absolutely up talking big about this. Shina Tiles, the

36
00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:54,400
Speaker 7: magic kid, the toff for beyond victory. Wanna fal wanna cat,

37
00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:55,560
Speaker 7: wanna pe.

38
00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:57,680
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

39
00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,400
Speaker 1: I mean, how many signatures wins does this rookie need?

40
00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,720
Speaker 1: I love you, Brock Bowers, but to give Jade and

41
00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,680
Speaker 1: Daniels the award. Thirty six to thirty three, the Washington

42
00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,480
Speaker 1: Commanders get it done in a fourth quarter comeback victory

43
00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,359
Speaker 1: over the Philadelphia Eagles, who played most of the game

44
00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,200
Speaker 1: without their quarterback, Jalen Hurtz. Can he pickt got it done.

45
00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:26,000
Speaker 1: But that doesn't take anything away from what Jade and

46
00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,680
Speaker 1: Daniels did against this Eagles defense. He put up thirty

47
00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,960
Speaker 1: six points on them. He came back from twenty seven

48
00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:37,200
Speaker 1: to fourteen down in the fourth quarter shook just what

49
00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,800
Speaker 1: stands out to you most from a five touchdown performance

50
00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:44,480
Speaker 1: from Daniels and yet another just kind of magical moment

51
00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,839
Speaker 1: for a franchise that it really feels like is turn

52
00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:51,200
Speaker 1: the page completely from the Dan Snyder era for good.

53
00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,440
Speaker 8: Yeah, five touchdown performance with two interceptions, and those are

54
00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:58,640
Speaker 8: important interceptions because Daniels overcame that one of them he sailed.

55
00:02:58,800 --> 00:02:59,880
Speaker 5: It was a big mistake.

56
00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,160
Speaker 8: You'd think that might doom younger quarterback or other quarterbacks

57
00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:06,480
Speaker 8: that maybe aren't as mentally tough as Jade Daniels, but no,

58
00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,480
Speaker 8: he went right back to work, let him down the

59
00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:10,920
Speaker 8: field through a beautiful touchdown pass to Terry McLaurin, threw

60
00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:13,120
Speaker 8: a couple of really nice touchdown passes to alamide As

61
00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,560
Speaker 8: a Kias by extending the play and then that dot

62
00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,120
Speaker 8: over the middle, throwing it into an open window before

63
00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,839
Speaker 8: the receiver is even there because Zach Bond, I don't

64
00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:22,160
Speaker 8: know why, he puts Zack Bond in coverage in the

65
00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:24,600
Speaker 8: middle of the field, leaves it open for him and

66
00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:27,600
Speaker 8: he throws it perfect dot touchdown. It demonstrated to me

67
00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:31,079
Speaker 8: the composure and the confidence and the maturity that I've

68
00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,280
Speaker 8: seen a lot and Jayden Daniels this year. We I

69
00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,040
Speaker 8: even saw in New Orleans last week, even though they

70
00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,320
Speaker 8: barely won that game. You see it throughout most of

71
00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,280
Speaker 8: this season. He is so calm and collected and just

72
00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,160
Speaker 8: sure of himself. And that's what allows him to lead

73
00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,760
Speaker 8: his team back to victories like this. And it was

74
00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,000
Speaker 8: only possible because, hate to say it, Jalen Hurts gets

75
00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,520
Speaker 8: knocked out of this game in the first quarter because

76
00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,160
Speaker 8: the Eagles were rolling. The Commanders had no answer for

77
00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,440
Speaker 8: Saquon Barkley. As soon as Hurts gets out of the

78
00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:57,920
Speaker 8: game and Kenny Pickett comes in, they shift their defensive strategy.

79
00:03:57,960 --> 00:03:59,920
Speaker 8: They go from two high safeties to one. They put

80
00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:02,040
Speaker 8: more guys in the box to stop the run. It

81
00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:04,600
Speaker 8: limits Saquon. Eagles have to find other ways to make

82
00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,119
Speaker 8: things happen. Their guys are dropping passes and the Commanders

83
00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,080
Speaker 8: are getting every opportunity in front of them, and they're

84
00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,040
Speaker 8: capitalizing and they get a big win.

85
00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think that's absolutely fair to point out

86
00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,719
Speaker 1: Hurts miss most of this game. And I have heard

87
00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:21,120
Speaker 1: people say, well, you know, Hurts wasn't playing defense and yeah,

88
00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:24,080
Speaker 1: that's true. But when Jaden Daniels throws that interception with

89
00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:27,719
Speaker 1: under four minutes to go in another world, that's where

90
00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,280
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts and Saquon Barkley have the drive that kind

91
00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,719
Speaker 1: of ices the game. Instead, they end up settling for

92
00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,080
Speaker 1: a field goal on a short drive only four plays

93
00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:40,480
Speaker 1: and Jade Daniels gets the ball back. Now, that doesn't

94
00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:43,560
Speaker 1: change the fact that he got it with one fifty

95
00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,400
Speaker 1: eight to go against what's been the hottest defense in

96
00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:49,320
Speaker 1: the league, and at one point they had a snap

97
00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,839
Speaker 1: with about twenty three seconds left a third and one,

98
00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,599
Speaker 1: and if this hadn't worked out for them, I probably

99
00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:56,760
Speaker 1: would have been killing them in the postgame. They decide

100
00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,560
Speaker 1: to run the ball there with Brian Robinson. They don't

101
00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,200
Speaker 1: get the sp off till eleven seconds to go, so

102
00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:07,440
Speaker 1: you only had time there shook for probably two more plays,

103
00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,800
Speaker 1: And that's where you got to give Daniels a lot

104
00:05:10,839 --> 00:05:13,760
Speaker 1: of credit, just between him and Cliff Kingsbury and Dan Quinn,

105
00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,360
Speaker 1: the way they've managed these sort of situations. Daniels has

106
00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:19,600
Speaker 1: eighty one yards rushing on the day as well, Like

107
00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:22,120
Speaker 1: he always seems to play his best when it matters

108
00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:22,520
Speaker 1: the most.

109
00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:23,520
Speaker 2: And that's what you love.

110
00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,479
Speaker 1: This is the first time Washington has been ten and

111
00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,960
Speaker 1: five since nineteen ninety one. That is absolutely outrageous.

112
00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, Magic Johnson was celebrating afterwards. He said they clinched

113
00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,240
Speaker 4: the playoff spot in a little little premature there, or

114
00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,680
Speaker 4: as we got we gotta wait for a couple more

115
00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,960
Speaker 4: things to settle down. But those those eighty one yards rushing,

116
00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:44,720
Speaker 4: A huge chunk of that came on a fourth and

117
00:05:44,760 --> 00:05:49,960
Speaker 4: eleven where Jayden Daniels just steps through and Jalen Hurts

118
00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,840
Speaker 4: had a significant absence in this game. CJGJ got run

119
00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:56,520
Speaker 4: from the game CJ. Gardner Johnson for two unsportsmanlike penalties.

120
00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:58,520
Speaker 4: I have to think it will be a little more

121
00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:01,040
Speaker 4: difficult for Washington to do what they did, especially in

122
00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:03,559
Speaker 4: the secondary kind of exploiting some mismatches. As you mentioned,

123
00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:07,600
Speaker 4: was Zach Bond there late if CJGJ was able to play,

124
00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:12,000
Speaker 4: but not just overcoming those turnovers there were five of them.

125
00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:14,600
Speaker 4: It wasn't just the Dayton Daniels interception. Brian Robinson had

126
00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,200
Speaker 4: the ball stripped out as well as a special teams play,

127
00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,599
Speaker 4: and there was so much leading the Eagles way other

128
00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,640
Speaker 4: than losing their quarterback and one of the better players

129
00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,520
Speaker 4: in the secondary. But they had opportunities, big opportunities like

130
00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,280
Speaker 4: a third and six late where DeVante Smith ran a

131
00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,680
Speaker 4: great route. Can he Pickett hits him on a slant

132
00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:37,400
Speaker 4: and Davante just drops the ball something that he rarely does.

133
00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:44,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, the gun Peckett, he puts dots of emotions, Peckett's pack.

134
00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:48,960
Speaker 9: He's looking, he is firing, suggled dropped by DeVonta smile.

135
00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,839
Speaker 9: Devonte Smith had it in his hands, maybe a touchdown

136
00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:54,880
Speaker 9: that he dropped it.

137
00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:58,360
Speaker 1: I was looking for the pathos there from Mary Reeves.

138
00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,240
Speaker 1: He's a pro on WIP and you heard it. You

139
00:07:02,279 --> 00:07:04,680
Speaker 1: heard it, because that would have taken the under two

140
00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,000
Speaker 1: minute warning. The Commanders would have had to use their timeouts.

141
00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,600
Speaker 1: He might have scored a touchdown on that play. And

142
00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,800
Speaker 1: sometimes shok, that's what playoff seeding and spots and seasons

143
00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:17,560
Speaker 1: come down to. Are just you need to get a

144
00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,200
Speaker 1: break and then you need to take advantage of a break.

145
00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,960
Speaker 1: What do you think about the Washington defense actually in

146
00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,600
Speaker 1: this game against Pickett? You know, did Eagles go three

147
00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,000
Speaker 1: for sixteen on third down? I know they struggled early.

148
00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,920
Speaker 1: Did it make you feel any differently about this team

149
00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:39,160
Speaker 1: in general, which looks very much headed to the sixth

150
00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,640
Speaker 1: seed here in the NFC.

151
00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:42,960
Speaker 8: No, I mean I felt good about their performance because

152
00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:44,679
Speaker 8: there was times where they would get after Kenny Pickett

153
00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:45,360
Speaker 8: and he would have nowhere to go.

154
00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:46,240
Speaker 5: He'd be under pressure.

155
00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,680
Speaker 8: There was a time where they slid the protection to

156
00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:49,840
Speaker 8: the left and left Dante Fowler with a free rush

157
00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:52,240
Speaker 8: to sack Picket on a key third down. That stuff

158
00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,280
Speaker 8: has happened, and then it happened plenty in this game.

159
00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:56,760
Speaker 8: But also the Eagles played the fourth quarter as of

160
00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,880
Speaker 8: every pass catcher went to the sideline got a big

161
00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:00,840
Speaker 8: tub of Crisco out coded their hands in it.

162
00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,600
Speaker 5: Because they drop passes left and right.

163
00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,000
Speaker 8: They were accurate throws, a lot of them that Pickett

164
00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,320
Speaker 8: put on the money, and they just didn't finish the catch.

165
00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,640
Speaker 8: It felt like one of those games where, like, I know, Patrick,

166
00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,960
Speaker 8: you're very anti momentum, but the momentum was just shifting

167
00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,000
Speaker 8: against them because they.

168
00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,200
Speaker 5: Kept dropping these passes.

169
00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:18,480
Speaker 8: It's like they were playing tight and as they stacked

170
00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,720
Speaker 8: up one after another to another to another. By the

171
00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,240
Speaker 8: time DeVante dropped that, I was like, well, that just

172
00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,800
Speaker 8: fits the way this whole fourth quarter has gone. Now,

173
00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:27,800
Speaker 8: that's not necessarily something that was forced by the Washington defense.

174
00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,000
Speaker 8: There was a catch that sa Quon Barkley made that

175
00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:32,719
Speaker 8: Bobby Wagner finished the play through and knocked it out

176
00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,840
Speaker 8: as he was trying to finish the catch along the sideline.

177
00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:37,400
Speaker 8: That was a huge breakup that one credited to the

178
00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:40,240
Speaker 8: Washington defense. But I mean they also forced turnovers. They

179
00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,240
Speaker 8: picked off Pickett after he finished off the first drive

180
00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,280
Speaker 8: in which he appeared after Hurtzott knocked out, he comes

181
00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,200
Speaker 8: in and throws a touchdown pass. Next drive he throws

182
00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:49,280
Speaker 8: a pick like immediately and it gets them back in

183
00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,000
Speaker 8: the game. So they definitely did their part to keep

184
00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,320
Speaker 8: the Commanders in this game and buy them the opportunity,

185
00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,199
Speaker 8: especially considering the five turnovers that Patrick mentioned. A complimentary

186
00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,080
Speaker 8: win for the most part. Oh crazy one, but a

187
00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:00,840
Speaker 8: complimentary win with the little bit of help on your

188
00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:02,280
Speaker 8: side with the fact that Hurts wasn't playing.

189
00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:03,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, more than a little.

190
00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,720
Speaker 1: There's no way may be a Jalen hurds the Eagles

191
00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,199
Speaker 1: team with five turnovers if he's out there. I'm sorry,

192
00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,800
Speaker 1: but that's just how it works out. And I said

193
00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:14,880
Speaker 1: they're headed for the seven seed. I shouldn't have said that,

194
00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:17,640
Speaker 1: or the sixth seed. The Packers or the Commanders will

195
00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:20,240
Speaker 1: probably be the six or the seven, and it's too

196
00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:23,880
Speaker 1: hard right now to guess, but this absolutely puts a

197
00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,560
Speaker 1: big dent into the eagles chances of winning the number

198
00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,320
Speaker 1: one seed in the NFC. It is out of their

199
00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:33,200
Speaker 1: hands now and it is almost certain that they're going

200
00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,400
Speaker 1: to be the two seed, with the winner of the

201
00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,439
Speaker 1: NFC North very likely being the one seed. Next Gen

202
00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,760
Speaker 1: Stats only gives them a four percent chance because they

203
00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,800
Speaker 1: didn't have the tiebreakers anyways against the Lions and probably

204
00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,720
Speaker 1: against the Vikings, and now they're behind both of them

205
00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,840
Speaker 1: at twelve and three, so a really costly lost. Nick

206
00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,160
Speaker 1: Sirianni was just saying how sloppy he thought it was

207
00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:58,920
Speaker 1: in retrospect. It's funny how it's like, yeah, that's all true.

208
00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,920
Speaker 1: And yet if DeVante onto that, it's a pretty gutsy

209
00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:05,120
Speaker 1: win to win against your division rival on the road,

210
00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:07,800
Speaker 1: and you had good, great things like AJ Brown was

211
00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,240
Speaker 1: just you know, handling marsha On Lattimore who was out there.

212
00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,439
Speaker 1: Marshall Latimore was to have had three pass interference calls

213
00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,960
Speaker 1: in this game, and even then AJ Brown was was

214
00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:19,920
Speaker 1: beating him on slants. AJ Brown to me is he's

215
00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:21,680
Speaker 1: on my ole pro team. I don't care what the

216
00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:25,600
Speaker 1: numbers say. He is just an outrageously good player. But

217
00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,760
Speaker 1: a huge miss opportunity for the Eagles, and it probably

218
00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,880
Speaker 1: means they're going to be headed on the road if

219
00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,200
Speaker 1: they're lucky enough to make the NFC Championship game. But

220
00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,880
Speaker 1: where will they be headed? Would it possibly be to Detroit?

221
00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:45,000
Speaker 1: Could it be to Minnesota? As this game was happening,

222
00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:50,400
Speaker 1: the Lions were playing the Bears, and the Lions game finished. First,

223
00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:51,400
Speaker 1: Let's see what happened.

224
00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:53,200
Speaker 2: We're good.

225
00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,080
Speaker 6: Jerry Takes stumbles coming out of there, wants to throw

226
00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:04,439
Speaker 6: dust out wide open Sam Laporta touchdown Detroit Lions.

227
00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,239
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.

228
00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:11,680
Speaker 6: Jared stumbled coming out from behind center, regained composure, regained

229
00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,160
Speaker 6: his grip on the football, and then threw it down

230
00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,480
Speaker 6: to a wide open Sam Lacorda for a touchdown twenty

231
00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:18,840
Speaker 6: one yards on the connection.

232
00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,440
Speaker 3: I think he did that on purpose. I think jer.

233
00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:24,760
Speaker 10: Yeah, because you could hear some guys even through the

234
00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,320
Speaker 10: reps Mike Yell and fumble fumble.

235
00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,200
Speaker 2: Jared Goff went down like he dropped the ball.

236
00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,320
Speaker 10: I think that sucked in a lot of those Chicago

237
00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,200
Speaker 10: defenders up to lawna scrimmage.

238
00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:36,840
Speaker 1: Great call there by Lomas Brown, TJ. Lang and Dan

239
00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000
Speaker 1: Miller on w x YT. Yeah, that play is called stumblebum.

240
00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,640
Speaker 1: It was on purpose. I didn't realize it was on

241
00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:48,319
Speaker 1: purpose at the time when I'm watching it, I mean,

242
00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,400
Speaker 1: they faked me out. But Jamir Gibbs goes to the ground,

243
00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:56,280
Speaker 1: he falls, GoF stumbles in such a believable way that like,

244
00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,160
Speaker 1: how did he do that? How many times has he

245
00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,680
Speaker 1: practiced stumbling life?

246
00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:01,559
Speaker 2: And then they.

247
00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,040
Speaker 5: Doesn't have the practice, I guess.

248
00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,400
Speaker 1: Come on, bro. And then the Koudi gras and that's

249
00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:09,560
Speaker 1: what I'm impressed. The announcers heard. It was all the

250
00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:13,160
Speaker 1: other Lions players going football football like yelling at the time.

251
00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:15,880
Speaker 1: And if you watch the play, you see the hesitation

252
00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:17,200
Speaker 1: by the Bears linebacker.

253
00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:18,120
Speaker 2: Who was it was that TJ.

254
00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:22,280
Speaker 1: Edwards covering Laporta and that one little second of hesitation

255
00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:25,480
Speaker 1: leads to the touchdown pass. The Lions win thirty four

256
00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,120
Speaker 1: to seventeen against the Chicago Bears. They did everything that

257
00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,520
Speaker 1: I expected in this game.

258
00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:34,440
Speaker 2: This was the game.

259
00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,920
Speaker 1: It just was so confident they would cover that seven

260
00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,280
Speaker 1: points on game deviut I said that was my pick

261
00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,200
Speaker 1: of the week was them getting over the team total,

262
00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,120
Speaker 1: which was twenty six.

263
00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:43,800
Speaker 2: They did that by halftime.

264
00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,079
Speaker 1: They were awesome offensively in this game, four hundred and

265
00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,200
Speaker 1: seventy five yards, twenty seven first downs. And you could

266
00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,880
Speaker 1: really pick any player that you want to highlight on

267
00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,120
Speaker 1: the Lions offense. You could pick Jamison Williams, maybe a

268
00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,079
Speaker 1: comeback Player of the Year candidate, can you come back

269
00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:00,440
Speaker 1: from your own mentions?

270
00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,240
Speaker 2: Jared Goff who threw the ball three.

271
00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:06,040
Speaker 1: Hundred and thirty six for three hundred and thirty six

272
00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:10,120
Speaker 1: yards on only thirty two attempts, beating the cold weather allegations.

273
00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,640
Speaker 1: He had an eighty two yard dime to Jmo in

274
00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:16,360
Speaker 1: that game. Or you could talk about Jamiir Gibbs, who

275
00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,959
Speaker 1: without David Montgomery and the lineup goes for one hundred

276
00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,240
Speaker 1: and fifty four yards on twenty eight touches. I'm a

277
00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,280
Speaker 1: little worried about all these heavy touchdowns by the way

278
00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,079
Speaker 1: they gave Saquon and that Eagles game, twenty nine carries,

279
00:13:28,120 --> 00:13:31,120
Speaker 1: like it's just it's just a lot. It's gonna be

280
00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,880
Speaker 1: a lot for Jamir Gibbs down the stretch, but they

281
00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:35,560
Speaker 1: did what they needed to do. They forced some turnovers.

282
00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:40,320
Speaker 1: Patrick and I don't know this. This team is special

283
00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:42,640
Speaker 1: to me. I have my concerns about the defense, but

284
00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,160
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised at all how this offense responded.

285
00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, the offense is no surprise, and Ben Johnson

286
00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,520
Speaker 4: just has to come up with I guess, new things

287
00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:52,959
Speaker 4: to show us every single week.

288
00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:55,240
Speaker 3: As maybe he wanted to put out a show.

289
00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,560
Speaker 4: That's what Peter Freger was suggesting for the folks in

290
00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,240
Speaker 4: Chicago were there to watch the game, as if in

291
00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,960
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four, you have to do things in a

292
00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:03,840
Speaker 4: particular place for people to see them.

293
00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:05,559
Speaker 3: But that's the narrative.

294
00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:09,280
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on a second, because he also said he

295
00:14:09,320 --> 00:14:13,720
Speaker 1: took inspiration after the game from Jordan Love stumbling and

296
00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:17,960
Speaker 1: making a very similar touchdown pass. I think I think

297
00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:19,960
Speaker 1: in Week one or something, maybe it was against the

298
00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,840
Speaker 1: Lions themselves, but he took inspiration. I mean, this is

299
00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,760
Speaker 1: an artist, and I keep seeing Lions fans. Why are

300
00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,160
Speaker 1: they're wasting these plays? Save them for the playoffs? Like

301
00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,640
Speaker 1: he's got these plays, He's got more of them. This

302
00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,840
Speaker 1: is an artist to he's getting inspiration each and every week.

303
00:14:34,880 --> 00:14:35,840
Speaker 2: Don't mess with the art.

304
00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:39,000
Speaker 4: No, it's beautiful every single time. And really, this team,

305
00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:41,400
Speaker 4: the offense is so good. Ben Johnson can call a

306
00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,600
Speaker 4: regular little screen pass whenever he wants and the Lions

307
00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,240
Speaker 4: are gonna get fifteen to twenty yards on it almost

308
00:14:46,280 --> 00:14:49,240
Speaker 4: every single time. The defense is where the concern is.

309
00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,520
Speaker 4: They're able to pressure Kayleb Williams. Now, that's pressuring Kayleb Williams.

310
00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:54,520
Speaker 4: So it's a very it's a very low bar. But

311
00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:56,560
Speaker 4: thirty nine percent of his dropbacks he was six or

312
00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:01,160
Speaker 4: fourteen for seventy three yards on those. He does eventually

313
00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:03,920
Speaker 4: throw for three hundred and thirty yards, but a lot

314
00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,040
Speaker 4: of that's in garbage time, a lot of it was late.

315
00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:09,680
Speaker 4: Keenan Allen had a long win where they're they're gonna

316
00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:11,880
Speaker 4: be in score fests, right. If the Lions are gonna

317
00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,960
Speaker 4: have this run in the postseason, it's going to be

318
00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,560
Speaker 4: a game that the totals in around the seventies or eighties.

319
00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,480
Speaker 4: But they're gonna be in those games. And I understand

320
00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,880
Speaker 4: the injuries of mounted, but they lose David Montgomery. They

321
00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,520
Speaker 4: got one of the most explosive backs, if not the

322
00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,240
Speaker 4: most explosive back, in the NFL right behind them, when

323
00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:29,920
Speaker 4: we saw what Jamo can do today, if he's if

324
00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:32,560
Speaker 4: he's getting more involved than manhing.

325
00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,040
Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe this is a conversation for like a

326
00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,000
Speaker 1: Tuesday show or something. But he he goes for one

327
00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,640
Speaker 1: hundred and forty three yards, He could go over a

328
00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:45,440
Speaker 1: thousand yards. His the variety of the routes that he's

329
00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,640
Speaker 1: run and is just really impressive. Our friends Ally Connelly

330
00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,280
Speaker 1: and John Ledyard been talking about on their on their podcast,

331
00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:54,320
Speaker 1: just what a great job he's done blocking all year,

332
00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,000
Speaker 1: how body and in he is running every route so

333
00:15:57,160 --> 00:15:59,360
Speaker 1: hard and he's just a different player. He's one of

334
00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:01,720
Speaker 1: the most improved players I think in the entire league.

335
00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:05,320
Speaker 1: I really find it fascinating that they were all watching

336
00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:07,720
Speaker 1: the Eagles game in the locker room, because that Eagles

337
00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,320
Speaker 1: game took a while and the Lions were off the

338
00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,120
Speaker 1: field early shook. And when they saw that the Eagles lost,

339
00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,160
Speaker 1: they celebrated as if it was like Clinton. I don't

340
00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:18,000
Speaker 1: know if it was as if clinting a division, but

341
00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,240
Speaker 1: they were all very excited. They finished at San Francisco

342
00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,400
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football. If you're in the UK, I'm

343
00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,240
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna do that game on Channel five, the

344
00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,160
Speaker 1: season finale, and then they close out with the Vikings.

345
00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,600
Speaker 1: So hopefully, even though a lot of drama's been taken

346
00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,200
Speaker 1: away from us, not to give away what happens here

347
00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,880
Speaker 1: the Vikings game, but yeah, you know, hopefully that game

348
00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,800
Speaker 1: Nick is for the one seed.

349
00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,280
Speaker 2: That would be a great way to finish this regular season.

350
00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it preserves what we hope would be a

351
00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,440
Speaker 8: great finish to this regular season, which we still have

352
00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,120
Speaker 8: the opportunity there because of course, I mean, the Lions

353
00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:50,360
Speaker 8: did what we thought they would do, which is go

354
00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,120
Speaker 8: beat the Bears. I just want to point out one

355
00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:54,000
Speaker 8: thing real quick, because you talked about points fest, right,

356
00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:56,400
Speaker 8: if it wasn't for a missed field goal, they would

357
00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,160
Speaker 8: have scored on their first seven possessions. They scored on

358
00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:03,120
Speaker 8: six of their first seven possessions field goal, touchdown, field goal, touchdown, touchdown,

359
00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,200
Speaker 8: miss field goal touchdown. They only had three more possessions,

360
00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,480
Speaker 8: and one of them was the end a game.

361
00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:09,160
Speaker 1: And the other, oh and another one the first time

362
00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,119
Speaker 1: they they didn't score there or didn't at least attempt

363
00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,760
Speaker 1: a field goal. They had a fourth and two I believe,

364
00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,600
Speaker 1: or fourth and three from the eleven. They were in

365
00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,520
Speaker 1: the red zone and they were way up. But Dan Campbell,

366
00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,720
Speaker 1: as Dan Campbell has wanted to do, wanted to touchdown

367
00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,200
Speaker 1: there and not the field goal, which made made sense.

368
00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,480
Speaker 1: They were already up three scores, so there was no

369
00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,680
Speaker 1: point in going from seventeen to twenty, and they didn't

370
00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,680
Speaker 1: get it there. Now, the only thing I would I

371
00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,520
Speaker 1: would push back just a tiny bit was just on

372
00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,040
Speaker 1: the garbage time aspect of the Caleb game. They were

373
00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,880
Speaker 1: not able to run the ball all day, so that's

374
00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:42,119
Speaker 1: encouraging for the lines.

375
00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,000
Speaker 2: But I thought Caleb threw the ball well all day.

376
00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,399
Speaker 1: They moved the ball well pretty much throughout the entire game.

377
00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:49,639
Speaker 1: They ended up with nineteen first downs three hundred and

378
00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,560
Speaker 1: eighty two yards. The reason their first few Dot drives

379
00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,200
Speaker 1: short circuited were fumbles won by Caleb, and so that's

380
00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,040
Speaker 1: on him. Otherwise, I thought Caleb had a really good game.

381
00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,560
Speaker 1: In another fun from Roma Donday. So you had these

382
00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:03,840
Speaker 1: two fumbles early in the game, and it just led

383
00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,439
Speaker 1: to a game script where they were always trying to

384
00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,640
Speaker 1: catch up. And that's true, but they were moving the ball,

385
00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:12,920
Speaker 1: especially considering they lost two offensive linemen in this game.

386
00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,560
Speaker 1: They're not a great offensive line. Anyways, he lost Braxton

387
00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,240
Speaker 1: Jones and they lost Tevin Jenkins. They had another injury

388
00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,639
Speaker 1: coming into the week and not an extra guy active,

389
00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,919
Speaker 1: So their offensive lines throughout that game were four different

390
00:18:24,960 --> 00:18:26,760
Speaker 1: tackles in one center.

391
00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,440
Speaker 2: And I know that in the lines did get a

392
00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:30,960
Speaker 2: lot of pressure.

393
00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,200
Speaker 1: As Patrick mentioned, Pat O'Connor got a bunch, Zadaria Smith

394
00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,080
Speaker 1: got a bunch, but they didn't get a lot of

395
00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,800
Speaker 1: QB hits or sacks on Calla Williams like every other

396
00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,840
Speaker 1: team does. So it actually was a little concerning to

397
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:45,040
Speaker 1: me that they let Chicago move up and down the

398
00:18:45,119 --> 00:18:47,880
Speaker 1: field so much. Shout out to Amanra Saint Brown too.

399
00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,320
Speaker 1: By the way, he goes over a thousand yards. He

400
00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,920
Speaker 1: has one hundred catches, one thousand yards and ten touchdowns

401
00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,439
Speaker 1: for two straight seasons. He's the first Detroit Lion to

402
00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,960
Speaker 1: ever do that. A total bad ass. I don't know

403
00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:00,919
Speaker 1: if Patrick Clayban is gonna make it to the end

404
00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,439
Speaker 1: of this show. I mean he's good. You're you're coffing

405
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:08,479
Speaker 1: over there. You're looking I got a button, I know

406
00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:13,159
Speaker 1: you do, but button, It's it's late December, Christmas is

407
00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:18,480
Speaker 1: right around the corner and playing well, broadcasting well when

408
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:20,560
Speaker 1: maybe physically you're not at your best.

409
00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:21,840
Speaker 2: That's just what.

410
00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:25,280
Speaker 1: UH stars do. Let's let's go to Seattle because that's

411
00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,000
Speaker 1: what Gino and Sam Donald were doing.

412
00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,040
Speaker 11: First and thirty nine, three fifty eight to go, Seattle

413
00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,840
Speaker 11: leads by four in the fourth quarter, Sam steps.

414
00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:37,160
Speaker 2: Up, Sam Broz left cut Jefferson.

415
00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:46,160
Speaker 11: On the fan, find some moneymaker justin Jefferson.

416
00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,159
Speaker 1: My god, I mean, it's gone next level with this

417
00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,240
Speaker 1: Sam Donald thing. He's playing like one of the best

418
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:54,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league.

419
00:19:54,240 --> 00:19:55,760
Speaker 2: That that was one of the plays of the season.

420
00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 1: I really believe that, considering this the stakes, the situation

421
00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,960
Speaker 1: there spons from the Minnesota Vikings, after Gino had just

422
00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,560
Speaker 1: put together what might have been his best drive of

423
00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,080
Speaker 1: the entire season. That play while getting hit the second

424
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,840
Speaker 1: time on that drive, that Donald made.

425
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,480
Speaker 2: A dime while getting hit, just incredible.

426
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,160
Speaker 1: Jefferson ends up ten for one, four and a couple

427
00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 1: of touchdowns Donald that was his third touchdown pass. The

428
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,640
Speaker 1: Vikings win it yes to get the thirteen and two,

429
00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:26,879
Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty four, dealing a cruel blow to

430
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,800
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks playoff hopes. Man this Vikings team, they

431
00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:35,000
Speaker 1: find different ways to do it, but you gotta give

432
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,680
Speaker 1: Sammy his flowers Patrick for doing it in a big

433
00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:39,200
Speaker 1: spot there.

434
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,879
Speaker 4: It reminded me of the game against the Arizona Cardinals

435
00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,440
Speaker 4: a few weeks ago where Kyler and company go down

436
00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,239
Speaker 4: and score and the Vikings need to drive, and there

437
00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,520
Speaker 4: was a third and seven and Sam Donald steps up

438
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,639
Speaker 4: and he throws a seeing eyeball to Justin Jefferson, which

439
00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 4: was a great Sam Donald play. It was one of

440
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,359
Speaker 4: the best I've ever seen him make. This one was

441
00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,440
Speaker 4: better this because, as you mentioned, Gino had the drive.

442
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,240
Speaker 4: There was a third and goal touchdown to aj Barner

443
00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 4: where he barely gets his feet in the back of

444
00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,199
Speaker 4: the end zone, and so pressure's mounting to get something

445
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 4: out of this drive from Minnesota where they are now trailing,

446
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,480
Speaker 4: and Sam Donald takes a couple of big hits, including

447
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,200
Speaker 4: one where his face mask.

448
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 3: Gets grabbed, his leg gets twisted up.

449
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 4: This vite boy a mafe was all over him for

450
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,159
Speaker 4: several points in this game, and he steps up, not

451
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 4: just stepping up, he's on the run, jumping off of

452
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,920
Speaker 4: one foot and making that throw to Justin Jefferson where

453
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 4: Julian Love is coming in from the safety. The corner

454
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,840
Speaker 4: is there, and it goes directly to JJ where nobody

455
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,399
Speaker 4: else can get it, and he walks into the end

456
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 4: zone where there's there's nothing else to say, Like Sam

457
00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 4: Donald is playing some of the best quarterback play in

458
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,719
Speaker 4: the NFL right now, and it's impossible to deny it.

459
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:46,720
Speaker 4: And it was the reason that I and a lot

460
00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:50,040
Speaker 4: of other people question this team. I was wrong, Donald's dealing.

461
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:51,119
Speaker 4: There's nothing we can do about it.

462
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,800
Speaker 8: That was one of those throws that it's like, it's

463
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,800
Speaker 8: often characterized as fit justin Jefferson's down there somewhere like

464
00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:58,640
Speaker 8: it was half that and the other half was, Oh,

465
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,480
Speaker 8: by the way, I trust myself off to let this

466
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:02,159
Speaker 8: rip because I still have a great arm, Like he

467
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 8: saw Cover two. He said, whole shot, except I'm gonna

468
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 8: throw it beyond both guys, the corner and the safety

469
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:09,719
Speaker 8: because I trust my receiver to go make a play.

470
00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 8: That's the confidence that you get from playing an entire

471
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,119
Speaker 8: season together and building it week by a week to

472
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 8: the point where you now believe in yourself that you

473
00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 8: can make that throw and you know that guy can

474
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,680
Speaker 8: make that catch, and oh, by the way, we're doing

475
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 8: it on the road in Seattle, where the fans are

476
00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 8: allowed in the stadiums designed to keep the sound in

477
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,959
Speaker 8: and we're trailing and we need this win because we're

478
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 8: trying to stay in the NFC race for the top seed.

479
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,320
Speaker 5: And we just deliver. That's what the Vikings do. They

480
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 5: just keep delivering.

481
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 8: I get so much hate online for my skepticism about

482
00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:33,800
Speaker 8: the Vikings.

483
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:34,879
Speaker 2: Guess what you send man?

484
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:36,439
Speaker 5: Not skeptical today?

485
00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: I mean, what more do they gotta do with thirteen

486
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,639
Speaker 1: and two, six and one away from Minnesota. They have

487
00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 1: a huge game next week against Green Bay and then

488
00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: even a bigger one against Detroit. So I was really

489
00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,800
Speaker 1: impressed with both quarterbacks in this game, and Darnold was

490
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: ultimately better because he didn't throw the two interceptions that

491
00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 1: Gino did. Now, the first Gino intersept you could fall

492
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 1: Noah fan a little bit for not continuing, but ultimately

493
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 1: Gino's made a few too many of those throws this

494
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 1: year where there were he's on the run and he

495
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 1: forces it, and that's on him. The interception that he

496
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,159
Speaker 1: made after they got the ball back with about a

497
00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: minute to go, they need a field goal just to

498
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,800
Speaker 1: set up how the end of this game went. Even

499
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,600
Speaker 1: after that, Jefferson touchdown, which was with under four minutes

500
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: to go.

501
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 2: Seattle got the ball back, they got it.

502
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 1: Into a really long field goal range, and Gino just

503
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 1: kept getting hit play after play. Both these quarterbacks did

504
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 1: eight quarterback hits I believe for the Seahawks, seven for

505
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: the Vikings.

506
00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 2: Gino's hobbling out there.

507
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: He had a key scramble, but they end up settling

508
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 1: for a sixty two yard attempt by Jason Myers.

509
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 2: He comes up short.

510
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 1: The Seattle defense steps up, gets the ball back fifty

511
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,640
Speaker 1: five seconds to go length of the field at least

512
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: in terms of getting into field goal range because they

513
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,119
Speaker 1: start at the seventeen yard line before moving backwards on

514
00:23:58,240 --> 00:24:01,679
Speaker 1: yet another false start. So many untimed penalties by the

515
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: Seahawks offense.

516
00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 2: Here's what happened. Geno Smith's trying to snap the Vikings win.

517
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,880
Speaker 2: He's three back to pass grows.

518
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 6: Right help that said interception by.

519
00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 2: The just S hand. The Minnesota Vikings have won eight

520
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 2: consecutive games.

521
00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 11: They are thirteen and two, and Kevin O'Connell is the

522
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 11: first coach in Minnesota Vikings history to have multiple thirteen

523
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:30,719
Speaker 11: bens seasons.

524
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 1: I mean, shout out to camp by him for the

525
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: way he gets this group ready for those celebrations. I'm

526
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: just gonna sound like a Genostan if I just start

527
00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: railing against DK metcalf right now.

528
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 2: So can you do it for me?

529
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 3: Patrick? Yeah, no, Dk isn't.

530
00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,560
Speaker 4: It's not just that they're on the same page, because

531
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,600
Speaker 4: even if DK was running the corner, it was a

532
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 4: very lazy corner at that he barely gets his head

533
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,719
Speaker 4: around before before the ball is picked off. Where you know,

534
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 4: how many times, right do you do you see this

535
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 4: situation where DK and Gino aren't on the same page,

536
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:06,200
Speaker 4: where you're just like, okay, no more option routes.

537
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 3: Let's take the options away.

538
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 4: Because when we saw at work right that there was

539
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 4: the adjustment, the side adjustment that he and Gino had

540
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 4: mid route that led to a long touchdown earlier this season,

541
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,080
Speaker 4: and we sang its praise is there, But here's the

542
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 4: downside where you've got a defender picking off a ball

543
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:24,800
Speaker 4: where they had a chance to win the game. And

544
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,680
Speaker 4: you mentioned those sacks before the Meyers sixty yard field goal.

545
00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 4: If Gino doesn't take those sacks, then that's not a

546
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 4: sixty yard field goal. You know, it's fifty seven fifty

547
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 4: five and the ball landed about four yard short. And

548
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 4: so if we're playing that game, Myers maybe puts that

549
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 4: ball through the uprights, and it's a different situation at

550
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 4: the end where those mistakes are the ones that we're

551
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,879
Speaker 4: going to remember. Despite how good Gino played other than

552
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 4: those two throws, it's very difficult to give them ball.

553
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,239
Speaker 2: That's the right throw like it is. It is an

554
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:54,719
Speaker 2: obvious read there, and you're right.

555
00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: I think the criticism on Ryde Grubb, the offensive coordinator,

556
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: has been picking up and up and up and up.

557
00:25:59,359 --> 00:25:59,840
Speaker 2: In c.

558
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: But ultimately it's a pretty clear read that he needs

559
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,159
Speaker 1: to be running toward towards the sideline there and instead

560
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,720
Speaker 1: he rounds it off. And when you're a player like

561
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,919
Speaker 1: Gino who's gonna win kind of from the neck up

562
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: and with the anticipation and you're backed up on your

563
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: own goal line with fifty seconds left and no timeouts,

564
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: like that is the right throw and dk dk blewett there.

565
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,399
Speaker 1: And unfortunately that's sort of the end of the Seahawks season.

566
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: We'll get into all the For instance, I shouldn't say

567
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: that I'm sounding like a fan, but it could be.

568
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: It could be without any of their control the end

569
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 1: of their season. But to me, it was typical shook

570
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,800
Speaker 1: because ken Walker leaves this game hurt. It's just a

571
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:49,760
Speaker 1: microcosm of the season. The offensive line has a couple

572
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,119
Speaker 1: better moments protecting him, but ultimately it's caving in and

573
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: it's too much of the these third and lungs because

574
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,879
Speaker 1: the three touchdown drives they went on. Gina was fifteen

575
00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: for fifteen with three touchdowns and had some of the

576
00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: prettiest throws you've ever seen. Steve Weiss is watching this

577
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: game and covering it and texting me just like the

578
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: quarterback play in this game was absolutely next level, and

579
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: yet to me it is fit fitting kind of in

580
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: the end that Smith and Jig but has the consistent game.

581
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,439
Speaker 1: He is the number one receiver there in Seattle now,

582
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: and it just there's too many things working against the Seahawks,

583
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: even if their defense was up for it.

584
00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:24,680
Speaker 3: Yeah.

585
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 8: Well, you speak about the offensive line caving, that's how

586
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 8: you lead to two to ten on two to ten

587
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 8: on third down, that's how. And a lack of attention

588
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 8: to detail with your eleven penalties accepted against you. I mean,

589
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 8: this is how you lose a game like this against

590
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 8: the top tier team. You cannot afford to make these mistakes.

591
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 8: You can't have your receiver as Mark Sanchez astutely put

592
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,359
Speaker 8: it ooze out toward the sideline instead of hitting a

593
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 8: hard cut toward the sideline when you need an anticipatory

594
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 8: throw in a key spot to get out of bounds

595
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 8: and saved time. You just can't make those mistakes. And

596
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,640
Speaker 8: this has kind of been endemic of who the Seahawks

597
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 8: have been at times. And this is before you take

598
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 8: Geno out of the game last week when they had

599
00:27:58,680 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 8: to have Sam Howe, because we saw how that f

600
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 8: off of a cliff where the margin for air for

601
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 8: them has been very slim in some of these games,

602
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 8: and it has cost them more often than that, which

603
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 8: is how you end up where you are record wise,

604
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 8: where you're now basically thinking are seasons about over? Because

605
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 8: you just didn't do the little things right, which is

606
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 8: disheartening because as a team they came together at the

607
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 8: right time.

608
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 5: But defense started to play better.

609
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 8: Gino was paulling and everything else, but you're gonna fall

610
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 8: short because you don't take care of the detail.

611
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: Defense played better today. You know that face mass penalty

612
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: that Patrick mentioned was on a sack. If they didn't

613
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: have the face mass there, it's a totally different game.

614
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: They're probably getting the ball back there with a lead

615
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,600
Speaker 1: without a lot of time left, and who knows what's happened.

616
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: They held Minnesota under three hundred yards under you know,

617
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: twenty first downs. They did a lot of good things,

618
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: but the offense turned it over twice. The Seahawks had

619
00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: eleven penalties in this game, most of those on offense,

620
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: like more than half of them in these pre snap stuff.

621
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: And I think they've built up something good, but at

622
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: eight and seven that might not be good enough. This

623
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: is one of the better conferences in terms of the

624
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: records of teams going into the playoffs. So we could

625
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: have it's possible, we could have seven to twelve and

626
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 1: plus teams. It's probably not gonna happen, or no way,

627
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: that's not that's not.

628
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: Possible, because now it is possible.

629
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,719
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, they can they can get there.

630
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 2: Edit that out, Eric, or don't. Let's go to New York.

631
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,240
Speaker 1: So that game happened late and we kind of learned

632
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: what is the race for the one seed gonna look like?

633
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: Now Minnesota now has it in their hands. If they

634
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: win out, they are the one seed. Obviously the Lions.

635
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:27,800
Speaker 1: That's still true for them.

636
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 9: Uh.

637
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: The Seahawks knew this game was even more important because

638
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: they certainly knew what happened earlier in the day in

639
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:35,840
Speaker 1: New Jersey.

640
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 11: Two tight end set with the strength to the ride

641
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 11: of Matthew Stafford, who's under center from that right side

642
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 11: hookah in motion play fake roll right, Stafford throws.

643
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 5: Caught Bye Hagbee at the ten, big Rig Higgs.

644
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 2: To look a line. Touchdown Tyler Haigbee.

645
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 12: Welcome back, big Rig Piggs.

646
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 6: Touchdown la.

647
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 2: That one in the Call of the Year. I love it. JB.

648
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: Long on KSPN, our friend big Rig Higg on a

649
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: play so fun. It had a nickname, and our friend

650
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: Jordan Rod reed Reig sent the nickname. It was called Lizard,

651
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: And all the Rams were just giggling about why it

652
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:19,840
Speaker 1: was called lizard.

653
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 2: But they wouldn't tell us why, tell us why.

654
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 1: Tyler Higbee, the longest tenured Ram next to Rob Habenstein,

655
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: I believe draft picked back early days before Sean McVay

656
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: even was here, gets into the end zone in an

657
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:43,920
Speaker 1: ugly nineteen to nine victory. Kind of typical for this season. Patrick,

658
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,000
Speaker 1: despite that Bill's game everyone remembers. They have a lot

659
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: of kind of these ugly wins, but they are nine

660
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: and six now, pretty amazing for a team that was

661
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: once one and four.

662
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you just heard ten percent of Matthew Stafford's

663
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 4: passing yards on that eleven yard touchdown to Tyler Higby.

664
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 4: He threw for one hundred and ten yards in this game.

665
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 4: If not for Karen Williams efforts, he got one hundred

666
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 4: and twenty two on the ground. Blake Korm had a

667
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,520
Speaker 4: long run that ultimately got called back for holding. The

668
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 4: Rams defense essentially won this game and some questionable decision

669
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 4: making by the Jets surprise surprise gives the Rams this one.

670
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 4: Where the Jets had a fourth and two that they

671
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 4: threw for got it early in the game led to

672
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 4: some points.

673
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 3: They had a fourth and one that they did not get.

674
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 4: They had difficulty corral Pukinakua everybody does, but they were

675
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 4: able to hold him to fifty six yards on eight catches.

676
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 4: Eight catches for just fifty six yards. Cooper Cup only

677
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 4: had three catches in this game, but the Rams defense

678
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 4: Cam Kurle got a sack of Aaron Rodgers late, not

679
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 4: just a sack, but a strip sack Jared Versus able

680
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 4: to get on top of it, and the Jets never

681
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 4: recovered from the Rams making some of those big plays

682
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 4: where there were so many opportunities. Aaron Rodgers threw the

683
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 4: ball forty two times, but it wasn't enough to deal

684
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 4: with this Rams team that this specialized the winning so

685
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 4: far earlier this year against the forty nine Ers, this

686
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 4: win in MetLife just some absolute ugly game that the

687
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 4: Rams have managed to win.

688
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: And it shows their versatility because there's a reason Sam

689
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: and Matt Stafford did not make it onto QB Island

690
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: and our friend Jordan got a lot of grief for

691
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,719
Speaker 1: it after that Bills game. And then you look at

692
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: these last two games against the forty nine Ers and

693
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: the Jets, like that's kind of been his season, a

694
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: little up and down.

695
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 2: Now, if you're a Jets fan, that's right.

696
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: QB Islan will be coming back at least by the

697
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: end of the regular season. If you're a Jets fan,

698
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: you got to think, like, how many different ways can

699
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: we lose games? Shook, they did not punt. They are

700
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: the first team in twenty five years. They only had

701
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: seven possessions, three of them ended on down so they

702
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth downs and they didn't get it.

703
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: They are the first team to not punt in twenty

704
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: five years to not score ten points. That's it's pretty

705
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: hard to do, not punt and not score ten points

706
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: and not turn the ball over until uh on, No

707
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: way that they did turn it over twice.

708
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:04,760
Speaker 2: That that Rogers play, he looked very old.

709
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw that, but that was

710
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,239
Speaker 1: that was a play where I know, I know he's

711
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: been better lately shook, but like I was, like, man,

712
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 1: the young Aaron Rodgers wouldn't have come close to taking

713
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: that sack.

714
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a reminder of the up and down nature

715
00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 8: of Aaron Rodgers in his current place in his career

716
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 8: and why we have no idea where he's gonna play

717
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 8: next year, if he's going to play, because you can't

718
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 8: figure out what he's going to be one week to

719
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 8: the next. You could say the same about Matthew Stafford,

720
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 8: but they're still winning football games and he's still throwing

721
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 8: a touchdown, passing a key spot like we just highlighted earlier.

722
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 8: That was the one thing that jumped out of me

723
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 8: was three turnover on down. This is what happens when

724
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 8: you get the confidence of scoring a touchdown on your

725
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 8: first possession and you're like, oh, we can go do

726
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 8: it again. It was great past the Devontae Adams in

727
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,240
Speaker 8: the back of the end zone, fantastic catch.

728
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 5: Let's go do it again.

729
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 8: Except they can't because they're the Jets, and despite how

730
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 8: well they've played the last couple of weeks, you face

731
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 8: a team that's actually fighting for a playoff spot and

732
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 8: you learn real quick just how far away you still are.

733
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: Right, And they also fumbled a punt return late when

734
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: they were only down by seven, and that that helped

735
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: make it get to nine. I mean, I believe, or

736
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: get to get to ten. I don't know, Like, what

737
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 1: do you think about this Rams team going into next week? Okay,

738
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: let's break down before I ask you that Patrick the situation.

739
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get it.

740
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 2: Okay.

741
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,919
Speaker 1: So they are in first place in the NFC West.

742
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: They are nine and six. The Seahawks are eight and seven.

743
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: Before the forty nine ers even played on Sunday, they

744
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: were eliminated based on that commander's win, which really eliminated

745
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: a lot of the pass for wild card possibility, including

746
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: for Seattle. Seattle cannot be a wildcard team, So it

747
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: is division or bust for Seattle. Seattle trails by one

748
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: game they play in the final week. If you look

749
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: at all the tie breakers head to head, well, they'd

750
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: be tied there because that Rams overtime win is now

751
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: looming as the biggest game in the NFC West all season.

752
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: They're tied there, tied in division record, tied, and they'd

753
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: be tied in conference record if they were tied going

754
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: into it. It comes down to strength of victory. Strength

755
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,480
Speaker 1: of victory is very complicated because it's it's like where

756
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: the BCS you're seeing if the teams that you beat

757
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: be other teams. So it's not totally decided. But we

758
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: asked NFL research Jack Andreid before the show. He was

759
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: doing all the calculations. And if Seattle wins on Thursday

760
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: night they play first, of course they have to win

761
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,440
Speaker 1: out to have a chance to win the division. They

762
00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,240
Speaker 1: have to win on Thursday night, take care of business

763
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: the Rams play on Saturday night. The Rams would not

764
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: be able to clinch the NFC West on Saturday night

765
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 1: based on the strength of victory tiebreaker. Now that said,

766
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: it could be clinched by the end of the week,

767
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: and they have such a big lead in strength of

768
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: victory that even if it wasn't clinched by the end

769
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: of week seventeen, you know before Seattle in the Rams face,

770
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: it could very well and likely would be clinched at

771
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: some point in week eighteen. So it lead to a

772
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: very unsatisfied scenario where Seattle could possibly be playing to

773
00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: win that game and think they have a little bit

774
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: of a chance, and they do win, but they don't

775
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: win the division anyways, Long story short, the Cardinals need

776
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: to beat the Rams next Saturday night on NFL Network

777
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: to give Seattle a chance based on how the Rams

778
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: look today, What do you think of the Rams kind

779
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: of in that game? To me, I'm I don't know

780
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 1: if I totally trust them in any given week, you

781
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like they're close, right, Yeah, Well.

782
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 4: The question is how clean is nine going to be

783
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 4: Matthew Stafford we saw it against the Buffalo Bills. If

784
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 4: he's protected, then the sky's the limit. They're gonna be

785
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 4: able to do whatever they do. It's a spectacular game

786
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 4: from Kyra Williams on the ground. There's also pressure in

787
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 4: Stafford's face and he throws a ball to DeMarcus Robinson

788
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 4: in double coverage and Tony Adams picks it off. This

789
00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 4: kind of like this late stage Stafford dichotomy where it's like, oh,

790
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 4: that's Matthew Stafford. I' watch them against the Buffalo Bills,

791
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,359
Speaker 4: and then who is this guy kind of sneakily getting

792
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 4: outplayed by like the ghost of Aaron Rodgers in spots

793
00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 4: of this game where they just they got to find

794
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 4: a way to protect them.

795
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 3: They didn't do enough to do that against he.

796
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 2: That's true.

797
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: The numbers say he's one of the worst quarterbacks in

798
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: football under pressure all season. Today he goes three for

799
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: five within interception, but he didn't take a sack. He

800
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 1: sort of is in that Rogers mode where he refuses

801
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: to take a sack, and that's improved offensive line play.

802
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: Hasn't taken a sack in three weeks, but it's also

803
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: him being a little panicky. I mean, he's only pressured

804
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: on twenty six percent of the dropbacks today. And so yes,

805
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 1: if the Cardinals can get some pressure on Matthew Stafford,

806
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: they'll have a chance next week and they'll have a

807
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: chance to help out the Seattle Seahawks and frankly, the

808
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: NFL which could use some Week eighteen games with a

809
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: little bit of juice. At least we'll have some juice

810
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: in that Saturday night game on NFL Network. He says,

811
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: a nice little tripleheader. But we would have had a

812
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 1: little more juice if the Cardinals had come through on Sunday,

813
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: but they didn't because Bryce Young got after it.

814
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: Let's go to Carolina.

815
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 3: Three tight ends to the run. Here's the snap that

816
00:37:58,120 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 3: give Deil Harbert.

817
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 10: Over the right show like to tackle ten hood, high

818
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 10: step touchdown, Huba Harbard and the Panthers win and overtime

819
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:14,240
Speaker 10: game winning twenty one yard run by Schuba Hubbard. Sweet

820
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 10: Caroline one more time in twenty twenty four.

821
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: That is WRFX Chuba Harvard getting it done. A walk off,

822
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: overtime touchdown. The Panthers finally get a win in one

823
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: of these close games. It feels like they've been giving

824
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,720
Speaker 1: us a lot of entertainment. You couldn't say that about

825
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three Panthers or the twenty twenty two Panthers.

826
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: For that matter. Good for them, thirty six to thirty.

827
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 2: Not a ton of defense.

828
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: Patrick played in this game, and yes we are in

829
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: a Patrick you know run here on the program three

830
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 1: straight games that he covered.

831
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 2: I love you, Shook.

832
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: You're gonna have your moments later when we do the AFC.

833
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,400
Speaker 1: If you didn't notice that kind of structured a NFC

834
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: AFC ah and yeah, they a problem with this.

835
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 2: This is fine. The Arizona Cardinals are eliminated. That's it

836
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 2: for them.

837
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:08,919
Speaker 1: They actually entered the day with a very reasonable path

838
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 1: to win the division and then by the time this

839
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: game was over, they were out.

840
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 4: And something that I don't believe has happened thus far

841
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 4: this season, the Carolina Panthers outran the opposition, and this

842
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 4: is with James Connor averaging seven point eight yards per carry,

843
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,120
Speaker 4: but he only had fifteen of them and Juba Hubbard

844
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 4: went twenty five on the ground for one fifty two.

845
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: It was the Panthers jumping out. It was a twenty

846
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,439
Speaker 4: to three lead that Kyler and the Cardinals were able

847
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:39,240
Speaker 4: to whittle away, a lot of it thanks to James Connor,

848
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 4: where Bryce Young had a touchdown drive where on two

849
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 4: plays he had fifty seven rushing yards, including a rushing

850
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 4: touchdown where they played less man because they had to.

851
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 4: Bryce Young was killing them. Once the defenders got their

852
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 4: their backs turned in the first half, but it eventually

853
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 4: goes into overtime. Bryce is making those anticipatory throws and

854
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 4: just when it kept seeming like Kyler Murray had opportunities

855
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 4: to come back and win this game, he will get

856
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 4: out on the edge and Kyler will get ran down. Yeah,

857
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 4: that's what jumped out to me. This Carolina Panthers team

858
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 4: that could not corral Patrick Mahomes five weeks ago on

859
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 4: scrambles was beating Kyler Murray to the sideline on multiple plays,

860
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 4: including one where I'm wondering what was going on with

861
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 4: the clock because I thought Kyler got out of bounds,

862
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 4: but they railed the clock.

863
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,200
Speaker 3: Jonathan Gannon had to take a time out in a.

864
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 4: Long Chad Ryland fifty eight yard field goal to send

865
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 4: the game to overtime. But the Panthers defense made plays late,

866
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 4: which is weird to say in a game that was

867
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 4: thirty six to thirty. But the Panthers defense, which has

868
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 4: been play a verse in the fourth quarter of this season,

869
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 4: finally makes the plays they need to.

870
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: Glad you pointed that out about Kyler because you look

871
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: on the statue eight for sixty three. That's what we've

872
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: been wanting to see be a little more aggressive. I

873
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: think he was more aggressive on the ground the last

874
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 1: two weeks, and he wasn't that successful. Maybe he was

875
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: chopping up his feet occasionally, but he just didn't look

876
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: like he had the same amount of It's late in

877
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: the season.

878
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the reason, but you're absolutely right, that was huge. Yeah.

879
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: Gannon essentially blamed the officials afterwards, and I agree with

880
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: him in this case, And it would have been really

881
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: unfortunate if, amongst the confusion of whether Kyler got out

882
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,160
Speaker 1: of bounds there or not, fifteen seconds going off the

883
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 1: clock and them not taking time out ended up ending

884
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 1: their season. But Rylan kind of bailed the officials and

885
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: I guess Gannon out in that situation and they went

886
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:32,279
Speaker 1: to overtime.

887
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,720
Speaker 2: But Bryce, to me, was the story.

888
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: And it's not a mistake that Bryce keeps getting Patrick

889
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: Laybon covering these games. I know how you enjoy watching him.

890
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: He going into the afternoon window, I think was second

891
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: in the NFL and EPA per play today.

892
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 2: I don't know what it ended up as.

893
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,080
Speaker 1: And so you'll look at the box score and you

894
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: see you see one hundred and fifty eight yards in

895
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, but he also ran for sixty eight yards

896
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: in a touchdown. Over half of his throws resulted in

897
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: touch downs are first downs, so if you watched it

898
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: just eye tests, it's really impressive what he's doing. These

899
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: are throws that he's making before his wide outs are

900
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: making breaks. And also credit to David Moore and Adam

901
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: Thelen for making some really good catches too. Not household names,

902
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: at least not David Moore, but Thelan's hands are just amazing,

903
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,960
Speaker 1: and I like seeing them get rewarded because this offense,

904
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: especially coming off a bad week took has really been

905
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: one of the stories of the second half of the

906
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 1: season that they got to go.

907
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, what we found in this, I don't know if

908
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 8: I would call it a resurgence, but the next Steven

909
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 8: Bryce Young's development is that he's kind of gotten a

910
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 8: little bit of Drew Brees and in that all these

911
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 8: throws are very anticipatory, and that's Dave Canalis understanding where

912
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 8: his quarterback strengths lie and then scheming the offense accordingly,

913
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 8: and then you kind of allow them to make plays

914
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 8: like Dan Chizna caught his second career catch today in

915
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 8: a kind of big spot. It was so surprising that

916
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 8: the cameraman missed him and thought it was somewhere else

917
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 8: and just completely missed the catch and had to refocus

918
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 8: to find him on the field. But it's because of

919
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 8: the way this offensive scheme and Bryce is playing really well.

920
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 8: Also on the Cardinals point, James Connor had one hundred

921
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 8: and seventeen yards, didn't get a carry in the fourth

922
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 8: quarter in a fourth quarter in which they actually managed

923
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 8: to put ten points on the board, see her, and

924
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 8: they were because they were.

925
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:13,759
Speaker 5: Down by ten.

926
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,440
Speaker 8: That's the question that I have because that doesn't make

927
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 8: a lot of sense to me when that's the power

928
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 8: of your offense. And Kyler on the run twenty yard

929
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 8: touchdown run. But you're right, this has actually happened a

930
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 8: lot with him in the last I don't know, six

931
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 8: weeks or so, which has been every time he tries

932
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 8: to get out to run, there are no spaces to run.

933
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 8: It's like defenses are preparing very much so to contain

934
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 8: his scrambling ability, and then he's forced to throw it

935
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 8: away or.

936
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 5: Just take a small game.

937
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 8: When he went out of bounds, I thought he may

938
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 8: have gotten knocked backward, and because he wasn't going out

939
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 8: of bounds with forward progress.

940
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 5: They ran the clock, but it was a very peculiar situation.

941
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: Regardles Well, I think it was the communication too between

942
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: the Yeah, nobody knew officials that they didn't communicate that

943
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 1: to the coaches.

944
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 2: But it's all beside the point.

945
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: On some level, they almost certainly weren't going to score

946
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: a touchdown there, so the field goal would just would

947
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: have been closer. Another couple spots are like Marvin Harrison

948
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: doesn't win a contested catch. It it's disappointing that it's

949
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:06,479
Speaker 1: hard to know what to do with this cardinal season

950
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: because it was a missed opportunity. They went into the

951
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: by at six and four, and they've lost four out

952
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,840
Speaker 1: of five since, you know, this is a bad loss. Ultimately,

953
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: they weren't that close with Seattle. It was really that

954
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: Minnesota game. The margins are so small that game where

955
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: they really outplayed the Vikings and blew it on a

956
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,359
Speaker 1: couple of game management and just Sam Darnold making big

957
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: plays at the end. That kind that kind of ended

958
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: up being their season. But we need you, Arizona. I

959
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: think I'll still think it's a step forward. Unfortunately, it

960
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,439
Speaker 1: feels a lot like the Kyler, Murray, Cliff Kingsbury years.

961
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: But I think you gotta give Jonathan Gannon a wider berth.

962
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 1: This was one of the hardest rebuilding jobs in the NFL.

963
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: I think they were very competitive for what they had

964
00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:52,239
Speaker 1: last year without Murray most of the year. Now they're

965
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: seven and eight. That's a significant step up. They're way

966
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 1: over there over underwin total coming into the season like

967
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:00,919
Speaker 1: it still was a big step forward. Going into year three,

968
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: I think be patient. Even if there were some moments

969
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: down the stretch where you just want to see Kyler

970
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: take that big step, I'm not sure that we saw

971
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: that this year. He's just a very good quarterback. Maybe

972
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,360
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be a great quarterback, or maybe he

973
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: just needs to have the right year.

974
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 2: This was not that year.

975
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: So the Cardinals are out. What about the Falcons? They're

976
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:25,960
Speaker 1: playing early, they have Michael Pennox. They absolutely needed a

977
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: win and they got it all right.

978
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 2: Here goes Lock looking to the near side.

979
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 13: I got beat it in the air and intercepted Matthew

980
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 13: Junon another six on a touchdown.

981
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 2: Well, I hope Besmu's not watching this game.

982
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 13: Whoa Drew Lock Casona's second interception and they both been

983
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 13: a pick six.

984
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: So the random SMU mustang are they drive by there

985
00:45:56,040 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: by Wes Durham and Dave Archer having fun like Matthew.

986
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 2: Jude's on w ZGC.

987
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, Judah on with the great Nick van Exel touchdown celebration.

988
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 2: At least that's what I thought.

989
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 1: Drew Locke second pick six of the game, That one

990
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: wasn't really his fault.

991
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 2: That was bad luck.

992
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: His offensive line completely collapsed on that play and Greg

993
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 1: Van Roten and Evan Neil really didn't give him much

994
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,600
Speaker 1: of a chance. It gets tipped up and Matthew Judin

995
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: makes a play. Hasn't made a ton for the Falcons

996
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: this year. They win thirty four to seven. But the

997
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: story here was Michael Pennix's first start. They needed the

998
00:46:34,520 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: win to really stay in the playoff mix, and they

999
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: got it. And I just thought he was so much

1000
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: better than the numbers indicated. When you go back to

1001
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: watch this shook on game pass for QB Index, I

1002
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: think you'll be like, Wow, that's one of the better

1003
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: eighteen for twenty seven for two h two in an

1004
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: interception games you've ever seen. First of all, the interception

1005
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: came on a drop from Kyle Pitts that that could

1006
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: have been a touchdown or would have had them right

1007
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: on the doorstep. Second of all the like just the

1008
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: eyeball test tells you he is not a normal rookie

1009
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,440
Speaker 1: like Jaden Daniels. He has a ton of experience. He

1010
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: is looking off defenders, he is being decisive, but he's

1011
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: also getting to his second and third reads at times.

1012
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: He was accurate. And yes it was against the Giants,

1013
00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: but a lot of this came against pressure. I think

1014
00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:26,399
Speaker 1: a really encouraging first start for Pennix where his arm

1015
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: strength and ability to get out of trouble and be

1016
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: on the move and do a little more play action.

1017
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 2: It was all there.

1018
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: It kind of made the Falcons playbook open up, like

1019
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: their offense just made more sense. And they are eight

1020
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,839
Speaker 1: and seven and I am looking forward to watching them

1021
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: the next two weeks. They have a very interesting game

1022
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: next week against the Commanders and Pennex. I think gives

1023
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:48,839
Speaker 1: them a much better chance to win it than Kirk

1024
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: Cousins would have.

1025
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think their offense never quite made sense for

1026
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins to begin with.

1027
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 8: When we spoke at Ad Nauseaum about the fact that

1028
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 8: they never ran play action and like, you don't need

1029
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 8: to run play action to get Penix going. You talked

1030
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:01,800
Speaker 8: about pressure for thirteen for seventy seven yards into pressure.

1031
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 5: That's good.

1032
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 8: That's very, very good for a rookie making his first start.

1033
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 8: Usually the numbers would be in the basement. They'd be

1034
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,959
Speaker 8: terrible against pressure because it's usually too fast for a rookie.

1035
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 8: But Penix is no ordinary rookie because of all the

1036
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 8: time he had in college, which is one of his

1037
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 8: big selling points coming into this game.

1038
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 2: Now.

1039
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:17,919
Speaker 8: It also helps you in the grand scheme of things

1040
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 8: when your defense scores two touchdowns when you rush for

1041
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 8: you know, a hundred and twenty seven yards the ground

1042
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 8: as a team, you know, and b John Robinson has

1043
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,879
Speaker 8: another solid day, but overall the quarterback to go thirty

1044
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 8: to touchdowns when that works, and that's fine, that's perfectly fine.

1045
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 8: I'm very much looking forward to like getting a deep

1046
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 8: dive in this game because I think Pennix was one

1047
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 8: of the guys in this class that would be able

1048
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 8: to produce something like this. And I'm not saying that

1049
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 8: the Falcons are like suddenly back, but considering where they were,

1050
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 8: this is a big win for them. The fact that

1051
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 8: they just weren't dreading the postgame press conference because their

1052
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 8: quarterback struggled again.

1053
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 5: So that's a win for that.

1054
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:51,200
Speaker 1: It was worth it. Life is short. The crowd was

1055
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 1: loving this game. The crowd was so much more amped

1056
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,480
Speaker 1: up for Pennix. One of his best throws of the

1057
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 1: game was his first one and it was dropped by

1058
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: Ray Ray McLeod, who just continues to have too big

1059
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: a part of this offense. And that's kind of why

1060
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: I mentioned like it's just beyond the numbers. There was

1061
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: at least three drops. Drake London, who did have some

1062
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: nice catches, had a drop on a key play, but

1063
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: you just get.

1064
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 2: Mooney in London more involved. Bijon is just so good though.

1065
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned that Pennix was in favorable situations

1066
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: because his success rate today was so good. He goes

1067
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,400
Speaker 1: for one hundred and three yards from scrimmage. He's now

1068
00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: over sixteen hundred on the season. I don't think people

1069
00:49:30,880 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 1: realize that he's on the doorstep of like a two

1070
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: thousand yard yards from scrimmage that would often lead the

1071
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: league where he is right now, and in fact, he

1072
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: would be leading the NFL in twenty twenty three if

1073
00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: he was in that So he had one of the

1074
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: more impressive twenty two for ninety four as I've ever

1075
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 1: seen because they did not block it well and he

1076
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: made so many people miss, including on one of his

1077
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 1: touchdown runs. I just I know Saquan is incredible. He's

1078
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: having a better season. But when I just watched Bajon

1079
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 1: like playoffter playoffs, like man, I don't know if I'd

1080
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: rather have any running back in the NFL right now

1081
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: than even Squad.

1082
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 2: I know that's crazy.

1083
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 3: No, he's a threat.

1084
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 4: I mean, they're both threats anytime, but Bijon will take

1085
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 4: more risks as a runner in the open space. Today,

1086
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,680
Speaker 4: he almost costs himself a first down by going backwards,

1087
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 4: But that's what he's thinking. He's trying to make big

1088
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 4: plays every single time he gets his hands on the ball,

1089
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 4: and I think with Pinnicks starting that he's able to

1090
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 4: do that more. I think the offense and I recognize,

1091
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 4: right they get the pick six, but what those two

1092
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,600
Speaker 4: pick sixes, But that also takes a couple possessions away

1093
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 4: where Pinnicks's numbers probably could have been a little bit better.

1094
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 4: Kyle Pits calling it a drop is is doing Cole

1095
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 4: Pits a favor. He handed the ball off to the

1096
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,439
Speaker 4: Giants essentially in the end zone.

1097
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: There the k Booty special from the Patriots, just like

1098
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 1: with like volleyball, like a like set it up like

1099
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: a volleyball player.

1100
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 2: That was That was unfortunate.

1101
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 4: But the reason right that I think, you know, pending

1102
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 4: the results on Sunday Night Football, in the way that

1103
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 4: the season goes, it's it's not just that they're not

1104
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 4: dead shook. It feels like they have a chance now,

1105
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 4: not just because of the change at quarterback. This is

1106
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 4: a defense that we were joking about their ability to

1107
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 4: sack the quarterback. They added three more today and in

1108
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:16,279
Speaker 4: the second half after the bye. This is sneakly one

1109
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 4: of the better pass rushes in the league considering what

1110
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 4: they've been able to do. And that's crazy thinking about

1111
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 4: before the buye they had nine sacks total.

1112
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: Right, I think it gives them a good chance to

1113
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: win these final games where it's going to be important

1114
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: each week they're at Washington and then their home for Carolina.

1115
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 2: Neither is easy.

1116
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: I would have said with Cousins, they would have been

1117
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: underdogs maybe in both of those games, certainly against the

1118
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,279
Speaker 1: Commanders with Pennix, I think they have a better chance.

1119
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 1: Arnold Abahetti had at a sack, they're up. Yeah, I

1120
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: think you said the sixteen sacks in the last few weeks.

1121
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: They are now thirteen and three wearing those red helmets.

1122
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: Just make of all the throwback looks, and there's more

1123
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,640
Speaker 1: than a few that should just be the permanent looks.

1124
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 2: This is high on the list. Just just make that.

1125
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: And then Jesse Bates had the other pick six where

1126
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: that one was on Drew Lock. Until that moment, Drew

1127
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:15,080
Speaker 1: Lock was actually playing quite well and is a significant

1128
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: upgrade from Tommy DeVito. But that is a really low

1129
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: bar and ultimately he's still Drew Lock. But man, Jesse

1130
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 1: Bates now for the season, has as many interceptions and

1131
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 1: force fumbles combined as any player in the NFL. Just

1132
00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: one of the great free agent signings of the last

1133
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: few years. Pennix ends up, by the way with a

1134
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: plus point eight point one EPA. The only two Falcons

1135
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: games that were any better in terms of EPA by

1136
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: a quarterback this year. Can you guess them? Nick schuok, Oh,

1137
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I should just put it up for because no, go.

1138
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 5: Ahead, Come on, but one's gonna be Tampa Bay.

1139
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,760
Speaker 1: Okay, these these were our games. You know, we did TNF,

1140
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: We did Monday Night Football together. I mean, it's just

1141
00:52:58,239 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: sitting right there for you.

1142
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 5: I'm trying to think about what we did on Monday Night.

1143
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 5: Does the Eagles that come back?

1144
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 3: Whenever the Eagles?

1145
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,400
Speaker 2: It was both the Boks games. Monday Night game was

1146
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 2: the Buck game and.

1147
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 5: He threw for like eight hundred yards of the two games.

1148
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 5: They didn't want to double.

1149
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 2: Up on Bucks games. Yeah, it was.

1150
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:12,880
Speaker 3: It was.

1151
00:53:13,280 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: It was the two Bucks games and Kirk Cousins, who

1152
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 1: the broadcast crew tried to give extra credit for because

1153
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: apparently Raheem Morris was like, hey, look, if you need

1154
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 1: to have a week to feel sorry for yourself, you know,

1155
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:29,880
Speaker 1: you could be the number three quarterback this week. And

1156
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 1: Kirk was like, no, I'm here to to be the

1157
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,439
Speaker 1: number two, and they're like trying to give him credit.

1158
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: I was like, that is the ultimate offer that you

1159
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: know the guy's not taking. It was like me telling

1160
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 1: Patrick that he could have the show off today.

1161
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 2: For being sick, like.

1162
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 5: Just myself and shook down the river.

1163
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you want to phrase it like that, like hey,

1164
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 4: if you need it if you need an evening to

1165
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 4: feel sorry for yourself.

1166
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 2: I'm joking. I it really was an option.

1167
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 1: Patrick, although as I'm making it, I just know how

1168
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: you are that if the unless the day went horribly

1169
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: wrong for you, you were going to be in that chair,

1170
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,200
Speaker 1: because if you were doing game Day Game Day Live,

1171
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: as you did, you know you're a warrior.

1172
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 2: Like Kurl, and you're not even wearing a helmet the

1173
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 2: whole time like.

1174
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 3: Kirk was, just in case he's one snap away.

1175
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: I mean, don't wear the helmet in the game. Let's

1176
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 1: just throw up this graphic before we take a break,

1177
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 1: just to depress all the Giants fans out there. They

1178
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 1: showed this on the broadcast, and I couldn't believe it.

1179
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: This is the chance that the Giants have. They have

1180
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:31,439
Speaker 1: to be the worst outright record in the NFL, first

1181
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: time since sixty six, winless at home, first times in

1182
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: seventy four, winless in the division, never in holding the

1183
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: number one draft pick nineteen sixty five. Almost immediately after

1184
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: they showed that graphic, they showed John Mara looking up,

1185
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: I believe, at the graphic and then walking away when

1186
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: he realized it. I don't won't know for sure if

1187
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: that's what he was looking at, but they showed him.

1188
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:59,280
Speaker 1: He didn't look happy. It's rough times, but ultimately they

1189
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: should thank Tommy DeVito and Drew Locke for this quest

1190
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: to get the number one overall pick. More on that later,

1191
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. That was the longest first segment

1192
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,000
Speaker 1: of the season. Who said you can't get better? In

1193
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, chucking.

1194
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 2: Down at seven for the Steelers.

1195
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 14: Play, Actually, Russell Wilson rolls right, Rosie stepped picked.

1196
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 12: Off Marlon Hoophrey, He's going to the house, picked six

1197
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:35,680
Speaker 12: Marlon Hophrey and the defense stepped up to a moment.

1198
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 12: Oh a play, have this house has on higher?

1199
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: Love that call by Jerry Sandusky on wb A L. Yeah,

1200
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:51,479
Speaker 1: how about a little complimentary football, Patrick Clayban. How about

1201
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: the defense making a big play That was two touchdowns

1202
00:55:55,160 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: in the span of about four game minutes as we

1203
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: went into the fourth order. Ravens back on Saturday that

1204
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: already feels like a while ago, beat the Pittsburgh Steelers

1205
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 1: thirty four to seventeen. These two teams are now tied

1206
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: atop the division at ten and five, And it was

1207
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: another game Patrick where it's kind of like with your

1208
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: raven like how you want to get beat by Henry

1209
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: or by Lamar, or in this case, by by a

1210
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: defense which held their own as well.

1211
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:25,400
Speaker 3: Ah.

1212
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:27,799
Speaker 4: Yes, a defense that has been so good. Zach Orr

1213
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,839
Speaker 4: got so much criticism there was questions about switching over

1214
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 4: play caller duties.

1215
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 3: This was before the buye.

1216
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 4: The pass rush got better in that win against the Chargers,

1217
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 4: and here against this George Pickens List version of the Steelers.

1218
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,760
Speaker 4: Before that play on Marlin Humphrey's pick six, Rashaw Bateman's

1219
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,479
Speaker 4: running across her. He stops for some reason. Lamar winds

1220
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 4: up throwing a pick directly to Mika Fitzpatrick. And so

1221
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 4: that's the game situation, and you think the Steelers are poised.

1222
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 4: But then the pass rush gets to Russ he's rolling out,

1223
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 4: throws behind his receiver and Marlow makes a play where

1224
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,960
Speaker 4: this Ravens secondary was it making plays earlier in the season.

1225
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 4: Now they decidedly are. And you got good contributions from

1226
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,919
Speaker 4: Rashad Bateman, who had the foot injury was questionable coming

1227
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 4: into the game. He scored a touchdown on a great

1228
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 4: Lamar throw where the offense was executing and Derek Henry.

1229
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 3: Had a lot of space to run through.

1230
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 4: The Steelers were very lucky to hold him to what

1231
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 4: was one of the best rushing the performances of the

1232
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 4: of the week. And that's you know, somebody might hear

1233
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 4: me say that, say that's crazy.

1234
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 3: Derek. Henry could have very easily had two hundred yards

1235
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 3: right here.

1236
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 1: There was a couple of plays where they just got

1237
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: him by the ankle. He still ends up with one

1238
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,439
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty two on the ground twenty seven through

1239
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: the air. And there's been a few games like this,

1240
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: but man, watching how they opened this game where they

1241
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 1: ran eight of the first thirteen plays to Henry and

1242
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,120
Speaker 1: he was just eating them up because they were giving

1243
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: him the inside runs because they were protecting the edge

1244
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: against Lamar. On those gives, they just put you in

1245
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: such a bind. I was impressed by Lamar in terms

1246
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 1: of in the game situation. It was seventeen all that.

1247
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: The Steelers were absolutely game here. They tie it up

1248
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: mid third quarter and if you're a Ravens fan, you're thinking, man,

1249
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,360
Speaker 1: this is a game. We've looked better and they're tied

1250
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: like it's happening again. And on that very next drive,

1251
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: six plays sixty yards, every single one of them is

1252
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. There's no Dereck Henry. It's a nice throw

1253
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: to Mark Andrews to start it, it's a touchdown to

1254
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: Andrews to finish it. It's a Lamar run in the

1255
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,320
Speaker 1: middle and a couple nice throws and he ends up

1256
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:40,760
Speaker 1: with a very efficient day except for that interception. And finally,

1257
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:42,920
Speaker 1: one of these games isn't close. I mean we always

1258
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: hear how every time it comes down to the end

1259
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,439
Speaker 1: and the Ravens kind of cruise there and are back

1260
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: in position to potentially get a three seed here in

1261
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:51,919
Speaker 1: the AFC.

1262
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 3: With some help.

1263
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 8: Yeah, I felt like that sixth place sixty yard drive

1264
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,120
Speaker 8: was really the statement drive of the entire day because

1265
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 8: it was very back and forth. It was a classic

1266
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 8: Raven Steelers game, and it just looks so easy for

1267
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 8: Baltimore on the following drive, in fact, when he dropped

1268
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:05,800
Speaker 8: back to pass and found Andrews in the en zone.

1269
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 8: As soon as he dropped the pass, in my head,

1270
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 8: actually out loud, I said to my TV, He's gonna

1271
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 8: find Andrews in the end zone. And then he throws

1272
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 8: into Mark Andrews and the end zone because that's what

1273
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 8: they do. And when they're firing on all cylinders. They're

1274
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,920
Speaker 8: a well olled machine. It's just that at times it

1275
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 8: has disappeared. It did not disappear in this game. The

1276
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 8: shocking part was the fact that the defense found the dagger.

1277
00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 8: They put the hay in the barn for Jerry Sandusky

1278
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 8: with that pick, which, by the way, Russ, what are

1279
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 8: we doing?

1280
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 5: That throw was on the wrong shoulder. It was about

1281
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 5: two yards behind him.

1282
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:30,919
Speaker 2: What are we doing?

1283
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:31,200
Speaker 3: You know?

1284
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:32,400
Speaker 5: Not a great play for him.

1285
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 2: I think he just missed the throw. I think he's

1286
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:35,240
Speaker 2: just on the run and made it.

1287
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 5: He absolutely missed that throw. I was just shocked, as

1288
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 5: usually doesn't miss those throws.

1289
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 1: No, and he fumbled going in for a potential touchdown

1290
00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 1: in the first half. Those were really the two biggest

1291
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,440
Speaker 1: plays of the game, and our Darius Washington popped him

1292
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: that on that run, So you got to give credit.

1293
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 2: What did you think about the game plan? Patrick?

1294
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: I didn't notice this watching it live. By Pittsburgh's defense,

1295
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: it didn't feel like they had a lot of pressure

1296
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: because they didn't. But they blitzed sixty two percent of

1297
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:08,479
Speaker 1: the time, and they blitzed with at least six pass

1298
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: rushers nine times and it really, to me is an

1299
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: example of how Lamar has grown because he had the

1300
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: ball out so quick, I didn't even notice they were

1301
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:19,760
Speaker 1: doing that.

1302
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, and there was you know, high Smith had a

1303
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 4: great pass rush. He actually strips back to Lamar. The

1304
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 4: Ravens were able to recover that. The Ravens did get

1305
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 4: away with recovering I think three fumbles in this game,

1306
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:34,920
Speaker 4: including one on the punt return one from Lamar, where

1307
01:00:34,960 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 4: the Steelers could have very easily gotten those.

1308
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 3: I think TJ. Watt probably came back and was playing after.

1309
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:43,959
Speaker 4: Leaving the last game with an injury, with a little

1310
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 4: bit of something, and then the Steelers weren't getting their

1311
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,400
Speaker 4: usual production from him in the pass rush and so

1312
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 4: maybe that led to a little more blitzing. But even then,

1313
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 4: when they got caught in these blitzeres with these Henry runs,

1314
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 4: normally there's a plan, right, there's a plan for Lamar.

1315
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 4: But it seemed like, all right, we're going to force

1316
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 4: Lamar to give the ball. Okay, that can work, but

1317
01:01:04,960 --> 01:01:07,800
Speaker 4: not when Derrick Henry is getting five and six yards

1318
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 4: of carry. It just seemed like they would eventually run

1319
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:11,600
Speaker 4: them out of it.

1320
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: But they never did, right, he just they never ran

1321
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,360
Speaker 1: him out of it, and he just knew where to

1322
01:01:18,440 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 1: throw it on those blitzes, which I just think, Look,

1323
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: he's always been able to win from the pocket, but

1324
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 1: like a lot of seven eight year veterans, he's a

1325
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 1: lot better. Reminds me of Big Ben, It reminds me

1326
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: of most great quarterbacks in year seven, year eight at

1327
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 1: winning before the snap, and I think Lamar does that

1328
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: more now than he did three four years ago. And

1329
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 1: so he was just popping those little ones to likely

1330
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:47,200
Speaker 1: and Dave Flowers ends up with one hundred and yeah,

1331
01:01:47,240 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 1: they sent all those pressures and you never felt it.

1332
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: On the other side, you actually did feel the Ravens pressures.

1333
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: It was pretty even just total pressure percentage. But Russ

1334
01:01:56,440 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: goes five for eleven for eighteen yards when pressured. He

1335
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: didn't get anything outside the numbers. So he made a

1336
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: couple of plays. But it's just tough to rely on

1337
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: that ultimately. And there are a lot of injuries for

1338
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,919
Speaker 1: the Steelers. They were without Dante Jackson, they were without

1339
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: Deshaun Elliott, and then Joey Porter Junior got hurt in

1340
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: this game. So these two teams have to flip around

1341
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: and play on Christmas and right now the Steelers are

1342
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 1: in first, but the Ravens got to feel like, ooh,

1343
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: the Steelers, there's a good chance they could lose on

1344
01:02:31,280 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: Chiefs against the Chiefs with all these defensive injuries.

1345
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not like trying to be a hater here,

1346
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 8: but I do have some concerns about the Steelers just

1347
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 8: because I've never seen an offense look so vastly different

1348
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 8: when you take one player off the field that's not

1349
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:44,600
Speaker 8: a quarterback like this offense.

1350
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 2: Get him back. Maybe they can get him back, right,

1351
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 2: They need him back.

1352
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 8: They desperately need him back because Russ pressure numbers totally

1353
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 8: fit with what you see on the field, which is

1354
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 8: when it's third down and he needs to throw a

1355
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 8: lofted like moonball to somebody, he's got nowhere to go.

1356
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 8: Because Pickens is not on the field. It has really

1357
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 8: limited their offense. He actually had pretty good day with

1358
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 8: that considered. It's just that, like, if they don't get

1359
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 8: him back soon, I'm concerned down this stretch here, especially

1360
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 8: with this quick turnaround, how well they're going to perform

1361
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:09,760
Speaker 8: because they're just hamstrung by it with the fact that

1362
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 8: they don't have it.

1363
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 1: Okay, So that was the later game on Saturday. As

1364
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,840
Speaker 1: I mentioned, these two teams will be playing against the

1365
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 1: Texans and the Chiefs on Christmas Day, and that means

1366
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:25,919
Speaker 1: it's time for the Sunday Drive presented by the all

1367
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 1: new hybrid Toyota Camry. Let's go to Arrowhead and see

1368
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 1: how that one shaped up.

1369
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 10: Second and nine, Kansas City in the red zone at

1370
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,040
Speaker 10: the tex In fifteen yard life, the homes on the

1371
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 10: far hash in the pocket, stepping up and trying.

1372
01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 2: To squeeze through the States on the street.

1373
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 10: Ten fuck the zone, touchdown, tail Zone City on that

1374
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 10: bad ankle, stepping through the pocket, running.

1375
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 2: All the way to the sweet nectar of.

1376
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 3: The young zone.

1377
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 1: Match to hold this on WDAF. It's rare that the

1378
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: first touchdown of the game is the one we go with.

1379
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 1: But to me, that was the defining play of a

1380
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: twenty seven to nineteen victory by the Chiefs. Watch out

1381
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: as if I'm such a dope boat like as if

1382
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:13,520
Speaker 1: I needed a game like this for me to be

1383
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: like watch out for the Chiefs, But I guess I did.

1384
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,520
Speaker 1: I was impressed, Chuck. I thought this was their best

1385
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: overall offensive performance of the season, coming after their worst

1386
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 1: offensive performance of the season. They looked really good in

1387
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 1: this one, I think twenty seven to nineteen against a

1388
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: really good Texans defense.

1389
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, Marquis Brown fit into this offense perfectly. I know

1390
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 8: he finished with the five catches for forty five yards,

1391
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:40,080
Speaker 8: but you could tell it was like a seamless fit.

1392
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:42,560
Speaker 8: And it really just expands their options in the passing game.

1393
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:44,800
Speaker 8: Which else Mahomes complete twenty eight to forty one for

1394
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 8: two sixty. But what stands out to me the most

1395
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 8: is that play. I'm so glad you picked that play

1396
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:50,080
Speaker 8: because this is a guy with a ball ankle. But

1397
01:04:50,240 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 8: for some reason in the year twenty twenty four, Patrick

1398
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 8: Mahomes believes he is now a power rusher and just

1399
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 8: likes to lower his shoulder.

1400
01:04:56,080 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 5: At the goal line.

1401
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 8: And so the second time he's done that in the

1402
01:04:57,720 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 8: last month, and it just kind of shows in the

1403
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 8: number of different ways they can beat you. Yeah, they're

1404
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 8: not impressive, but this was one of the more impressive victories.

1405
01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 8: Like you said, against a good defense. They capitalized on

1406
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 8: turnovers made by c. J. Stroud, they held them off

1407
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,400
Speaker 8: at the end. The Texans had a chance to you know,

1408
01:05:11,560 --> 01:05:13,760
Speaker 8: potentially take the lead or at least you know, tie

1409
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:16,160
Speaker 8: the closed, they were down by five and they forced

1410
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 8: a punt three and out like that and the game

1411
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 8: is basically over from there. That is the mark of

1412
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 8: a winner. That's a team. That's what you have to

1413
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:22,120
Speaker 8: do in games like this late in the season.

1414
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: They're doing it right there was It wasn't a heavy

1415
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: drive game, so they had three points per drive that

1416
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: would lead the league most years. That does not include

1417
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: them finishing the game on a seven play forty six

1418
01:05:32,200 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 1: yard drive where they just are kneeling at the end,

1419
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 1: which is becoming a Chiefs trademark. So this really was

1420
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: their best performance I think of the season because it's

1421
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 1: going up against a really good Texans defense, and I

1422
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:47,280
Speaker 1: thought Mahomes played smarter. He got rid of the ball

1423
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: so quickly. It was a great Mahomes read game plan

1424
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,640
Speaker 1: game where they kept having the leverage and he knew

1425
01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 1: exactly where to go with the ball. It was the

1426
01:05:55,200 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 1: quickest he got rid of the ball two point five

1427
01:05:57,400 --> 01:06:01,480
Speaker 1: to five seconds since twenty twenty one early in that season.

1428
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: And then we mentioned the rushing value. He had twenty

1429
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:07,120
Speaker 1: seven rushing yards on that first drive, ends up with

1430
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: thirty three, and I just thought their coaching was great

1431
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 1: all around.

1432
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 8: C J.

1433
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 1: Stroud, despite the interceptions, was game and made more really

1434
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:16,520
Speaker 1: impressive plays in this game than he has.

1435
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 2: In a while.

1436
01:06:17,480 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: But when they needed it, Spagnolo dialed up the perfect

1437
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:23,200
Speaker 1: blitz and the Texans offense was confused and a lot

1438
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 1: of late pressures on Stroud, and even though I thought

1439
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:27,440
Speaker 1: he did a lot of.

1440
01:06:27,480 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 2: Good things, ultimately it was too much for him.

1441
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: It looked like a playoff game to me, Like, if

1442
01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: you told me this was the divisional round, I was like, yes,

1443
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 1: I could totally see that.

1444
01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:38,800
Speaker 4: No, absolutely, And I was looking back and thinking of

1445
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 4: how the Texans kind of started this whole thing by

1446
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 4: blowing that lead against the Kansas City Chiefs years ago

1447
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 4: before they went on their first Super Bowl run. And

1448
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 4: I do disagree about the Mahomes touchdown being the most

1449
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 4: consequential player of this game. It was Tank Dell's injury.

1450
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 4: The Texans had something going on offense. It really it

1451
01:06:57,600 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 4: felt like during this game, after coming back from the

1452
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 4: broken leg and all he went through getting shot in

1453
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 4: the offseason, this was Tank Dell's best performance that I'd seen.

1454
01:07:07,600 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 4: And he scores a touchdown on the last play of

1455
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:11,600
Speaker 4: a season where he takes the shot to the knee.

1456
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,800
Speaker 4: You can see tears on eyes of players on both

1457
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 4: sides of the ball. You have Will Anderson consoling CJ.

1458
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 4: Stroud as they load him up onto the cart there,

1459
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 4: and the offense was very stagnant after that, where it

1460
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:27,080
Speaker 4: was kind of all on Nico Collins and over on

1461
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 4: the offensive side. You would really you wouldn't think too

1462
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:33,440
Speaker 4: much about DeAndre Hopkins' performance, but it was so Chiefs.

1463
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 4: He caught four passes, all of them on third down.

1464
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:41,919
Speaker 4: Like new Hopkins shows up in kind of this weird

1465
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 4: bizarro Travis Kelce role where it's those guys jobs to

1466
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 4: move the sticks and now Xavier Worzy and Hollywood are

1467
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 4: able to make the explosive plays for the Chiefs where

1468
01:07:51,320 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 4: the whole picture has kind of come into clarity for

1469
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 4: this offense.

1470
01:07:54,600 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, where he ends up with a touchdown in

1471
01:07:57,760 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: this game too, in a nineteen yard run, and Mina

1472
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:03,320
Speaker 1: Chimes had at a good stat that in terms of

1473
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 1: yards on short passes, he's now in the top twelve,

1474
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 1: I believe in the entire NFL. So they've actually done

1475
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:13,919
Speaker 1: a better job figuring out just to use him kind

1476
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: of like they useder she Rice early last year on

1477
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 1: those short crossers and Kelsey, who does look older and

1478
01:08:19,520 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 1: can't break a tackle anymore, he's less important. With Marquis

1479
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: Brown back, suddenly you you add one more weapon along

1480
01:08:27,439 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 1: with Pacheco, not that he's kind of looked full Pacheco

1481
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:34,479
Speaker 1: yet U. It just makes them more dangerous. And yeah,

1482
01:08:34,560 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 1: that Tank injury is brutal. I couldn't agree more with

1483
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 1: everything that you said. He was playing so well in

1484
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 1: this game, and I've never seen a reaction like that

1485
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:50,560
Speaker 1: out of teammates and and a quarterback and CJ. You

1486
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:54,560
Speaker 1: know when I said Joe Mixon consoling CJ after it,

1487
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,000
Speaker 1: I just thought like that that's leadership there by him.

1488
01:08:57,160 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: And they they did get a field goal drive, a

1489
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 1: long field droke goal drive going after that, But that

1490
01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: that drive actually, to me, was typical. Once they got close,

1491
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 1: they took a sat, they took a penalty, then they

1492
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: took a sack. You know, the their their offensive line

1493
01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:14,720
Speaker 1: got more injured in this game. Shape Shaq Mason, their

1494
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 1: their rookie Blake Fisher got hurt at right tackle and

1495
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: then he came in and out, but he really struggled.

1496
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 1: And it just doesn't feel like it's their season and

1497
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,759
Speaker 1: you really hurt for Tank Dell. He has a dislic

1498
01:09:26,200 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: dislocated kneecap. According to Ian Rappaport, he was held in

1499
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: the hospital overnight on Saturday. It's it's a really serious injury.

1500
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,800
Speaker 1: And so obviously our best goes out to him that

1501
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: the Texans are are now nine and six and they

1502
01:09:41,400 --> 01:09:44,799
Speaker 1: have to turn around and play on Wednesday against the Ravens,

1503
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: and you just think about that game and you think, Okay,

1504
01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:51,240
Speaker 1: the Ravens, even in Houston, are heavy favorites, I would say,

1505
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 1: to win that game, or at least favorites, and the

1506
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 1: Steelers have an uphill battle playing the Chiefs, so that

1507
01:09:57,680 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: they are at home on Christmas in the race now tied,

1508
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: they don't need to worry about tie breakers because if

1509
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 1: the Steelers went out, they are going to win the division.

1510
01:10:08,520 --> 01:10:11,320
Speaker 1: They need to get a game up on the Pittsburgh

1511
01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: Steelers if they want to win the division. That was

1512
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: the Sunday Drive presented by the all new hybrid Toyota Camri.

1513
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:20,000
Speaker 1: Whatever your vibe, it's a camera vibe. Learn more at

1514
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: Toyota dot com slash Camry. Okay, so we went into

1515
01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:28,240
Speaker 1: Sunday after those two results in the AFC. This is

1516
01:10:28,280 --> 01:10:31,200
Speaker 1: the AFC portion of the show, and the Bills knew

1517
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: they had to beat the Patriots to have any hope

1518
01:10:35,439 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: of still getting that one seed.

1519
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 2: They wouldn't mess around and play with their food, would they?

1520
01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 14: Eric second and nine with ten nineteen left, maybe from

1521
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:48,280
Speaker 14: the shotgun, throws it out in the flat and it's incomplete.

1522
01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:51,080
Speaker 14: Is it a lateral pass and a free ball? It's

1523
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:53,760
Speaker 14: in the end zone. Is it a lateral Yes, it's

1524
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:57,759
Speaker 14: a touchdown. The Bills recover the ball in the end zone.

1525
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:04,240
Speaker 14: Tarren Johnson done the football for the touchdown. Breke Rousseau

1526
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:07,360
Speaker 14: was out in the right flat to foil the pass,

1527
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 14: but it was a backwards pass recovered for a TV.

1528
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 1: If I see another backwards pass to a Patriots running

1529
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:20,760
Speaker 1: back with this season, I just that play.

1530
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 2: They were always doing that play.

1531
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the timing like the running back,

1532
01:11:24,520 --> 01:11:27,760
Speaker 1: like why are you doing that play? Remandre has had

1533
01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: a tough year with ball security. He lost two fumbles

1534
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: in this game. Oh they credited that one to Drake

1535
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: may actually, but you know we have eyes. How dare

1536
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: you give another turnover to my boy who did have

1537
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: an interception in this game? On a play that I

1538
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 1: don't know what happened, the Patriots like two different receivers fall.

1539
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 1: The Bills escape with a twenty four to twenty one victory,

1540
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 1: And yes, it was as close as that score indicated,

1541
01:11:56,680 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 1: even though the Patriots scored with a minute and thirteen left.

1542
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,440
Speaker 1: It's hard to say that the Bills outplayed the Patriots

1543
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: on a day where Patriots have a little more time

1544
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:07,120
Speaker 1: of possession, dominated it in the first half, they end

1545
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: up with more yards, they were better on third down,

1546
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 1: they had twenty eight first downs. A pretty surprising and

1547
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:19,559
Speaker 1: flat performance by the Bills defense overall, and I think

1548
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,280
Speaker 1: there's reason to be concerned, but I think there's also

1549
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: a reason to just look at the schedule and figure

1550
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:26,120
Speaker 1: it's going to take care of itself. They were without

1551
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:31,080
Speaker 1: Tamar Hamlin, Taylor Rapp, Matt Malanuzul Douglas in this game,

1552
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:33,559
Speaker 1: and it showed they could not get off the field

1553
01:12:34,520 --> 01:12:37,400
Speaker 1: at linebacker. Baal in Spector was really struggling, and the

1554
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 1: Patriots offense kind of dominated for the first thirty minutes

1555
01:12:41,439 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 1: of this game, and despite that it was only fourteen

1556
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:48,600
Speaker 1: to seven at halftime. Josh Allen looked like it was

1557
01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:50,559
Speaker 1: going to be a concern in terms of an injury

1558
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:53,120
Speaker 1: for his hand, but afterwards he said he just hit

1559
01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 1: his elbow really hard and did not have feeling in

1560
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,560
Speaker 1: his hands for a while, and they lucked out a

1561
01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: little bit. One of his throws just went straight up,

1562
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 1: but it fell to the ground, and it looked like

1563
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 1: Mitch Trubisky is maybe gonna come into the game. But

1564
01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: it makes sense that you would lose feeling in your

1565
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: hands when you slam your elbow to the turf on

1566
01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:13,320
Speaker 1: what was like a ten degree day. At one point,

1567
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:15,920
Speaker 1: Drake may just dropped the ball because like the ball

1568
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 1: I think was so icy cold. It was freezing there,

1569
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 1: and the Bills escape.

1570
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 2: I guess.

1571
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: It's just one of those games. Just get out of

1572
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: here with a victory. They are twelve and three shook.

1573
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're gonna feel any differently after

1574
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 1: watching this game than you did before. The only thing

1575
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: that I guess it didn't help was Josh Allen's MVP case,

1576
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's really gonna matter.

1577
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was keeping an eye on it, and I was,

1578
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:40,320
Speaker 8: you know, it looked like one of those games. By

1579
01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 8: the way, that's the ulner nerve I believe that's affected

1580
01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 8: when the Ulver Bowl forearm and handgun numb.

1581
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 5: I've dealt with that myself.

1582
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:48,160
Speaker 8: Not fun and on a cold day like that, I

1583
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 8: mean even that fubble recovery in the ends, and it

1584
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 8: looked like guys were slipping and sliding around to get

1585
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 8: on the football.

1586
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 5: So conditions not great. Bill's offense not great.

1587
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:56,840
Speaker 8: Are you due for a performance like this in which

1588
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:59,519
Speaker 8: you've been putting up an insane amount of points in

1589
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:02,639
Speaker 8: the last i don't know, six seven weeks. Thirty plus

1590
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 8: is the first time they planted under thirty points since

1591
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 8: way back in week six.

1592
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 5: Okay, so they were due for this. They also have

1593
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 5: Patriots Jets Patriots.

1594
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 8: Yes they're in a fight for the AFC seating in

1595
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 8: the AFC seating race, but it's Patriots Jets, Patriots, and

1596
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 8: you're at home, so I can understand why maybe come

1597
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:18,640
Speaker 8: out a little bit flat against the team they know

1598
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:20,719
Speaker 8: you're gonna beat. And ultimately they did beat them because

1599
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 8: they are the better football team. It's not necessarily because

1600
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:25,600
Speaker 8: they played well, because if they were dominated, you know,

1601
01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 8: by the Patriots offense so much, a better team wins

1602
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 8: that game.

1603
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 5: But they didn't because it's the Bills. So you know

1604
01:14:31,120 --> 01:14:32,840
Speaker 5: the James come touchdown. Rome was nice. He finished this

1605
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 5: with eleven for one hundred yards. And you get out

1606
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:35,680
Speaker 5: of town. You know, you go home.

1607
01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:37,080
Speaker 8: You say, all right, we want to keep going and

1608
01:14:37,240 --> 01:14:38,600
Speaker 8: we try to correct some things and make sure we

1609
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,880
Speaker 8: don't come out as flat. If anything, it's a reminder

1610
01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 8: of two things. There are no gimmes in the NFL,

1611
01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 8: and you must always be prepared. You cannot afford to

1612
01:14:45,479 --> 01:14:47,040
Speaker 8: come out flat even if you did win this game.

1613
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 8: And two, for some reason mid to semi late December,

1614
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:54,560
Speaker 8: somebody in the MVP race plays an Orchard Park and

1615
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:55,280
Speaker 8: has a clunker.

1616
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 5: Last year it was Dak Prescott. Today it was Josh Allen.

1617
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 3: Okay, no, I forgot about that Dak Prescott game.

1618
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:03,560
Speaker 5: Did your absolutely every really did accept me?

1619
01:15:03,840 --> 01:15:06,320
Speaker 2: I forget that he was even in the MVP race.

1620
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:08,639
Speaker 2: Do you do you want to apologize Patrick?

1621
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:12,719
Speaker 1: Like one of our Blue Sky followers suggested for saying,

1622
01:15:13,200 --> 01:15:14,720
Speaker 1: there was no need to talk about this game.

1623
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:16,839
Speaker 2: The Patriots showed up and they made it again.

1624
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:17,800
Speaker 3: Well well to peel back the curtain.

1625
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:21,080
Speaker 4: I actually had the Patriots hitting the over on their total,

1626
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 4: which thankful for some late Bill's penalties on what was

1627
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:31,160
Speaker 4: a nine snaps inside the ten yard last on the

1628
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 4: lasts the second to last possession for the New England Patriots.

1629
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 4: But yeah, Hytham had written that down because we weren't

1630
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 4: going to talk about it, so I read it, you know,

1631
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:40,640
Speaker 4: and I got to take credit for the words that

1632
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 4: are in the teleprompter where I said that we weren't

1633
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:44,880
Speaker 4: going to talk about this game. But I thought there

1634
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 4: was an opportunity to see a Bill's defense that had

1635
01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 4: been dealing with injuries, that had seen eighty two points

1636
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:53,280
Speaker 4: in the last two games that they played, to kind

1637
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:57,759
Speaker 4: of have another performance against a young quarterback who hasn't

1638
01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:00,680
Speaker 4: made the mistakes that he did today. This was one

1639
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:02,680
Speaker 4: of the worst Drake made games that we've had.

1640
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 1: Hold on, I would disagree because I think the first

1641
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 1: half he played like perfect, you're right down the stretch.

1642
01:16:11,200 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 1: There were the two turnovers, but one of them is

1643
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: Ramandre dropping the ball right, I mean, he.

1644
01:16:17,320 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 3: Shouldn't fire the ball backwards to his running back like that.

1645
01:16:20,280 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 2: Well, why is that the play?

1646
01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: But an absolutely beautiful ball the Keseh on Booty for

1647
01:16:27,360 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 1: a touchdown and Booty goes five for ninety five. I

1648
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:32,679
Speaker 1: think made all the right decisions in the first half

1649
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 1: as they were moving the ball and ultimately moved the

1650
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:37,880
Speaker 1: ball and the Bills for most of the day.

1651
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:39,599
Speaker 2: So I didn't think it was it was like a bad.

1652
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:43,840
Speaker 3: Game, my guy, just if you take well, you know,

1653
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 3: you could say that about any game.

1654
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 4: But there was the questionable interception that he threw in

1655
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 4: the end zone, and Josh Allen had one of those

1656
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:51,599
Speaker 4: as well. But you guys mentioned the talent disparity between

1657
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 4: these two teams. Josh Allen can afford to make that mistake.

1658
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:57,560
Speaker 4: Drake makets that ball to a Patriot and this is

1659
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 4: a ball game.

1660
01:16:58,280 --> 01:17:01,599
Speaker 3: This is the ball game. Sands those twos about New England.

1661
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:03,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was one of those where if you just

1662
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about the two teams, you would not

1663
01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:09,320
Speaker 1: have thought the Bills were a better team. But that's

1664
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: that's why you do got to look at the score,

1665
01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: because they are a better team. If they were in

1666
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 1: a different scenario, because Drake may hit that shot, like

1667
01:17:16,120 --> 01:17:17,760
Speaker 1: they would have played better. That's at least how I

1668
01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: believe like they would have done enough to find a

1669
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: way to win. And it is a reminder they put

1670
01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: allD Alec Anderson out there and they do the sixth

1671
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: offensive lineman thing. They do mash when they need to,

1672
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 1: and they ran for one hundred and seventy two yards.

1673
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:34,680
Speaker 1: And I believe if they had had more possessions and

1674
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: had the ball more like they could have run for

1675
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 1: two seventy five on the Patriots.

1676
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,240
Speaker 2: Before we leave this game, there's not much more here.

1677
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 8: You know.

1678
01:17:42,560 --> 01:17:47,000
Speaker 1: Drod Mayo and his game management decisions are just crazy

1679
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:50,080
Speaker 1: at points. He punted on a fourth and six with

1680
01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:53,600
Speaker 1: eight minutes to go down two scores, and it's just

1681
01:17:54,280 --> 01:17:55,000
Speaker 1: you just can't do that.

1682
01:17:55,120 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 2: They're at midfield.

1683
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 1: His defense had given up scores on two of the

1684
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:02,719
Speaker 1: last three drives before that. They end up giving up ah,

1685
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 1: you know, just one first down, but they give up

1686
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: four minutes of clock. The Patriots don't get it back

1687
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: until about four minutes left in the down two scores.

1688
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 1: The game's over at that point. It just it just

1689
01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: makes no sense for him to make that decision. And

1690
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 1: we've seen that again and again. Ian Rappaport, our guy

1691
01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:22,519
Speaker 1: said the Patrick Craft, I mean Jonathan Craft and the

1692
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 1: and the Crafts really want to keep drawd Mayo, and

1693
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:27,439
Speaker 1: the plan is to keep Dirod Mayo. But they keep

1694
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: saying this so much. He even said unless the floor

1695
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 1: falls out over the next three weeks, I was like, well,

1696
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:35,360
Speaker 1: that's a pretty small sample size. You're kind of leaving

1697
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: the door open here. Certainly they could look at this

1698
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:40,679
Speaker 1: game and find it encouraging because because they certainly played hard,

1699
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:43,599
Speaker 1: and if Remandre had a little better ball security, uh,

1700
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 1: maybe they even win in Buffalo.

1701
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 2: But it didn't happen.

1702
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 5: I feel like the floor's already gone, like what Floras left.

1703
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 1: I guess if they like got blown out embarrassingly like

1704
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: they did last week, for a few more weeks in

1705
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 1: a row, maybe that would change their mind. He shouldn't

1706
01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:58,560
Speaker 1: be making decisions off that. I've seen enough, frankly, but

1707
01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: I get it. It's not very patient. I'm not being

1708
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 1: patient with this new staff. The Bills should almost root

1709
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: for either, you know, they should root for clarity. They

1710
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 1: should root for sitting in the final week, which just

1711
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: gave me a nightmare scenario that the Patriots are going

1712
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 1: to blow their draft pick positioning because right now they

1713
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 1: are up to number two in the draft pick. But

1714
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:24,640
Speaker 1: if the Bills are resting everyone in Week eighteen, that

1715
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:27,960
Speaker 1: could be a problem. Let's keep it with the teams

1716
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 1: that are still in the race. Yes, the Bengals are

1717
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:31,480
Speaker 1: still in the race. Let's go to Cincinnati.

1718
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,360
Speaker 15: Burrow in the shotgun back at the eighth chase, Brown

1719
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 15: to his left, Yo Si Bosch goes in motion, now

1720
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 15: goes back in the original direction. Burrow to throw, steps up,

1721
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 15: throws and it's cat for the touchdown. Te Higgins with

1722
01:19:45,360 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 15: the catch. He tosses the ball way up into the

1723
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 15: air like a geyser. Burrow is being pulled down and

1724
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 15: just flung it forward for the touchdown.

1725
01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: Oh Joe Burrow, he knows he gets to come up

1726
01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: with something fancy to make us pay attention at this

1727
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: point in the year. But we should be paying attention.

1728
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: They're still in this wildcard race. I saw a number

1729
01:20:08,520 --> 01:20:11,520
Speaker 1: that had him at like twenty plus percent. That's pretty significant.

1730
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 2: He got it done.

1731
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:17,600
Speaker 1: I mean, his three touchdown streak is just absolutely outrageous.

1732
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:20,520
Speaker 1: He finishes with two hundred and fifty two yards three touchdowns.

1733
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 1: Did have a late turnover, which for a second made

1734
01:20:23,200 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 1: it look interesting, but they end up cruising twenty four

1735
01:20:26,240 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 1: to six over your Brownies, and it sets up a

1736
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:34,840
Speaker 1: game next week with the Broncos. Shook where the Bengals

1737
01:20:35,120 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: can at the very least be playing a meaningful game

1738
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 1: in week seventeen, and if they went playing a meaningful

1739
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,600
Speaker 1: game in week eighteen, small victories.

1740
01:20:42,240 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 8: Which is that's all they wanted right when they had

1741
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 8: this awful start in which the defense couldn't stop a nose.

1742
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 8: But all they wanted to do was figure out a

1743
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:50,519
Speaker 8: way to stack wins. You basically had to go perfect

1744
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:52,840
Speaker 8: down the stretch, and so far they're doing it today.

1745
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:55,559
Speaker 8: They did it with relative ease against the Browns team

1746
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 8: that started Dorian Thompson Robinson, which was like, you know,

1747
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 8: red meat to a pack of dog, because they just

1748
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:02,720
Speaker 8: went after him all day. The pressure numbers don't bear

1749
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 8: it out, but I'll tell you what, he was under

1750
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:04,680
Speaker 8: pressure all day.

1751
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 5: This defense, for the.

1752
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:09,959
Speaker 8: First time all year, put together a quality, high quality performance,

1753
01:21:10,040 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 8: limited the opponent to six points, and Joe Burrow did

1754
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 8: more Joe Burrow things. I was semi convinced he was down,

1755
01:21:16,200 --> 01:21:18,360
Speaker 8: but I'm glad that he was not rolled down because

1756
01:21:18,360 --> 01:21:21,400
Speaker 8: that throw was awesome. We had the Patrick Mahomes falling

1757
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 8: down throwing diving in the Super Bowl a few years ago.

1758
01:21:24,360 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 8: This one might be even better. Obviously, smaller stage. But

1759
01:21:27,240 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 8: the result remains the same, which is that we know

1760
01:21:29,400 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 8: what we're going to get from the Bengals offense, which

1761
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 8: is going to be Joe Burrow throwing three touchdown passes,

1762
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 8: even though the last one was kind of in garbage time,

1763
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:37,880
Speaker 8: by the way, made him the first player in NFL

1764
01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:39,840
Speaker 8: history to have two hundred and fifty plus passing yards

1765
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 8: and three plus passing touchdowns in seven consecutive games. Historical

1766
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 8: performance against a team that will be forgotten by history

1767
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:47,679
Speaker 8: in the Cleveland Browns.

1768
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 5: So they took care of business. Good for you, Bengals.

1769
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 1: Well, there was a fumble on the very first drive.

1770
01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:57,000
Speaker 1: The Browns were knocking on the doorstep and Deontay Foreman

1771
01:21:57,640 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: fumbled it on the goal line. Now, who knows, maybe

1772
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:01,519
Speaker 1: the game would just been different if if the Browns

1773
01:22:01,560 --> 01:22:02,040
Speaker 1: scored there.

1774
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:03,680
Speaker 2: No, no, no, okay, no.

1775
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:07,760
Speaker 3: Miles Garrett got his one hundredth career sack in this game.

1776
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 3: Congratulations to him. Some bright spot. But yeah, Joe Burrow

1777
01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 3: was absolutely down on that touchdown to t Higgins. It

1778
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 3: wasn't yeah, thank you, It wasn't wow.

1779
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 2: Really okay, yeah, that was totally down.

1780
01:22:19,200 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 5: But they missed that fair in football.

1781
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:23,920
Speaker 1: Tea talked about it. Te who was banged up in

1782
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: this game? Did he finish the game?

1783
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:25,719
Speaker 2: Shook?

1784
01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:28,720
Speaker 8: He caught that touchdown pass early, but I didn't see

1785
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:31,160
Speaker 8: him out there late. I would not be too concerned

1786
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:31,720
Speaker 8: about that though.

1787
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 5: Okay, but they were targeting Joshiba's a lot late.

1788
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:37,519
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was an ankle twisty tackle where T. Higgins

1789
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 4: was down for several minutes. Din't come ba again.

1790
01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 5: Near the right sideline.

1791
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,240
Speaker 1: He ends up eight for fifty eight. He talked after

1792
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 1: the game on that Burrow throw crazy.

1793
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 2: Arm at angles Joe flew from today, hold on one

1794
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 2: that's best. The one he threw to me, not because

1795
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 2: it's my touchdown. Looked like Superman when he was throwing it.

1796
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 2: So I'm calling Superman from this day for fat Man.

1797
01:22:57,360 --> 01:22:57,719
Speaker 3: Superman.

1798
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 1: That is at Trags on Twitter. Go go ahead, give

1799
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: a Trags a follow. T r A g s A

1800
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: great clip there from T Higgins. Yeah, I'm with him, Superman.

1801
01:23:11,680 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, Joe just spend all that money on

1802
01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:15,840
Speaker 4: the Batmobile and then and then we got the f

1803
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 4: Batman quote from T.

1804
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:19,879
Speaker 3: Higgins, So I love the situation.

1805
01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:22,599
Speaker 1: Speaking of quotes, so let's listen to a Burrow after

1806
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:25,719
Speaker 1: the game, the most intense man in the NFL.

1807
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 16: It feels good to playing big games. That's that's why

1808
01:23:29,800 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 16: we do what we do. That's why we work so hard.

1809
01:23:33,720 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 13: You know.

1810
01:23:34,040 --> 01:23:35,920
Speaker 16: Everything that I do in last season is to put

1811
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:39,640
Speaker 16: myself in the best position to to play great at

1812
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:42,720
Speaker 16: the end of the year in these big games coming up.

1813
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,920
Speaker 16: So that's it's exciting to be still be in it.

1814
01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:49,840
Speaker 16: Guys work really hard, coaches work really hard, so it's

1815
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 16: nice to ride off a couple wins here.

1816
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:55,080
Speaker 1: What do you guys think about the perfectly quaft hair,

1817
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:58,679
Speaker 1: the tank top with the tank tap combo, the white

1818
01:23:58,720 --> 01:23:59,160
Speaker 1: tank tap.

1819
01:24:01,200 --> 01:24:02,519
Speaker 5: You know, I I gotta say this.

1820
01:24:03,080 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 8: He is a phenomenal quarterback, but he doesn't quite have

1821
01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:10,120
Speaker 8: enough shoulders and traps. Oh wow, fill that out while

1822
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 8: sitting down me hair makes up.

1823
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 4: For it, because well, I think in Joe's defense, it

1824
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:17,680
Speaker 4: would look weirder if he was up there retracting his

1825
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 4: scalpula uh to take the pose that he needs for

1826
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:23,799
Speaker 4: this pristine a shirt.

1827
01:24:24,439 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna call it the alternative title that that.

1828
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 2: It's most I was careful not to there.

1829
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: He came in with a different outfit though, something over

1830
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,080
Speaker 1: that but clearly after the game he just didn't feel

1831
01:24:35,080 --> 01:24:37,160
Speaker 1: like wearing it. I think I think a lot of

1832
01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 1: the audience, the female part of the audience, would disagree

1833
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:40,919
Speaker 1: with you shook anyways.

1834
01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 8: No, I think the hair in the face and everything else.

1835
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:44,599
Speaker 8: I mean, the guy is attractive, don't get me wrong.

1836
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 8: I'm just saying, if you're gonna sit down in a

1837
01:24:46,320 --> 01:24:48,160
Speaker 8: tank top like that or an A shirt, you know

1838
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:49,000
Speaker 8: a little bit more.

1839
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 4: But it's the threat count on that thing is crazy.

1840
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 4: I mean that that's one of the nicest looking A shirts.

1841
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 5: You don't buy those in a three pack. We come

1842
01:24:57,920 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 5: one at a time.

1843
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:00,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can't get those like we we'll have an

1844
01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:01,000
Speaker 3: excess weekend.

1845
01:25:01,479 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 2: No, and we never will.

1846
01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:07,680
Speaker 1: But the Bengals, they might just still have access to

1847
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:10,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs. All I'm rooting for in these final weeks

1848
01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:14,680
Speaker 1: are games to be more relevant or most relevant. It's

1849
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:18,000
Speaker 1: like that that Falcons Commander's game would have been even

1850
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:20,439
Speaker 1: juicier if the Commanders had lost the whole the whole

1851
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:22,880
Speaker 1: NFC slate would have been But even that, Okay, that's

1852
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:26,600
Speaker 1: a good Week seventeen game. Bengals Broncos, which is a

1853
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: Saturday game. It's in the middle there that that's one

1854
01:25:30,479 --> 01:25:32,640
Speaker 1: of the biggest games of next week. It's basically a

1855
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: playoff game for the Bengals. You want to show us

1856
01:25:36,360 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: that you deserve a little something. Bengals that go out

1857
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:41,840
Speaker 1: beat the Broncos, I'll be impressed. Who knows if you'd

1858
01:25:41,920 --> 01:25:44,760
Speaker 1: still get into the playoffs because the other results on

1859
01:25:44,920 --> 01:25:48,400
Speaker 1: Sunday didn't go your way, including the one in Indianapolis.

1860
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 6: First intend outside zone, big hole for Jonathan Taylor.

1861
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 2: There he goes again, fifty.

1862
01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 5: Forty down the course sideline.

1863
01:25:54,520 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 3: You ben do it again?

1864
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 12: Turn touchdown?

1865
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:02,639
Speaker 7: Ye, the one cover seventy yards.

1866
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 10: Jonathan Taylor having a monster.

1867
01:26:05,600 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 2: Game at Week sixteen. That was Matt Taylor on w

1868
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:11,640
Speaker 2: f N.

1869
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 1: I yeah, Jonathan Taylor was running angry and then he

1870
01:26:17,400 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 1: just ran all the way into the you know, under

1871
01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:23,439
Speaker 1: the seat, under the what do I want to.

1872
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 2: Say, tunnel, into the tunnel. Thank you? Yeah, the ball.

1873
01:26:28,240 --> 01:26:30,200
Speaker 1: It's like he was afraid that, yes, they would take

1874
01:26:30,280 --> 01:26:32,640
Speaker 1: the ball away from him. And then I think one

1875
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 1: of his teammates jokingly tried to take it away.

1876
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 2: You know, there's a whole thing there. They're having fun

1877
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 2: with it.

1878
01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor two hundred and eighteen yards in three touchdowns

1879
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:44,600
Speaker 1: on twenty nine rushes. Well, surely he had all the

1880
01:26:44,680 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 1: rushes if he ran twenty nine times. No, Anthony Richardson

1881
01:26:48,240 --> 01:26:51,120
Speaker 1: nine for seventy in a touchdown on the ground, Trey

1882
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 1: Sermon eight for twenty five, Tyler Goodson goes four four,

1883
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 1: twenty three. Yes, they only allowed Anthony Richardson to throw

1884
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:01,759
Speaker 1: the ball eleven in a game that they scored thirty

1885
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: eight points.

1886
01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:03,320
Speaker 2: This was a crazy game.

1887
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 1: The Colts scored thirty eight consecutive points after trailing seven

1888
01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:12,480
Speaker 1: to nothing, and then the Titans scored twenty three consecutive

1889
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:16,559
Speaker 1: points to make it an eight point game with under

1890
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:18,760
Speaker 1: three minutes to go. But it never was you know,

1891
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 1: totally totally in doubt here, and the Colts get their

1892
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:26,519
Speaker 1: seventh victory. I mentioned them in context with the Bengals

1893
01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 1: because even if the Bengals won out and the Broncos

1894
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 1: lost out, it would be the Colts that would get

1895
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:40,240
Speaker 1: the seventh seed. If the Colts can keep beating the

1896
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: poor teams of the NFL, and they've got a couple

1897
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:46,720
Speaker 1: easy matchups down the stretch, and I don't know, I

1898
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,880
Speaker 1: don't know what the big takeaways are here, Chuck, you

1899
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 1: but you're shaking your head out of disgust even thinking

1900
01:27:52,880 --> 01:27:54,800
Speaker 1: that the Colts could be in the playoffs. They played

1901
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 1: at the Giants and then the Jaguars the last two weeks,

1902
01:27:57,600 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 1: so they have a decent chance to finish nine and eight.

1903
01:28:00,760 --> 01:28:02,720
Speaker 5: This is what ten years of knowing each other gets you.

1904
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 8: Right there, Greg reading my expression, knowing exactly what I'm saying,

1905
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:07,280
Speaker 8: because it would be criminal if the Colts got in

1906
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 8: the playoffs over the Bengals.

1907
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:12,639
Speaker 5: I mean, just look at this game dominating on the ground.

1908
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:17,599
Speaker 1: Okay, I guess that's true, like for our entertainment purposes, yes,

1909
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:19,920
Speaker 1: but I can't really say that the Bengals like.

1910
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 5: Deserve to make it, you know, No, I mean realistically neither.

1911
01:28:24,439 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 2: They're hoisted on their own petard.

1912
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 1: Although if they beat the Broncos and then they beat

1913
01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:31,280
Speaker 1: the Steelers in Week eighteen, then they kind of will

1914
01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: deserve it. So I take it back in this hypothetical

1915
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:36,080
Speaker 1: that I don't think is gonna happen, because I don't

1916
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 1: think the Bengals ultimately are gonna be good enough to

1917
01:28:39,080 --> 01:28:42,120
Speaker 1: win those two games that the Colts are in it,

1918
01:28:42,240 --> 01:28:44,920
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be weirdly rooting for the Bengals next

1919
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,280
Speaker 1: week because they need that victory over the Broncos.

1920
01:28:47,600 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 8: They're also a weird viewing experience because they dominate on

1921
01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:51,760
Speaker 8: the ground in a game like this, and Richardson throws

1922
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,080
Speaker 8: eleven passes. He also gets a touchdown run vultured from

1923
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,320
Speaker 8: him by Jonathan Taylor by virtue of being ruled just

1924
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:58,400
Speaker 8: down short of the goal line. I mean, that's neither

1925
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 8: here nor there. But it's a weird like team to

1926
01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:03,639
Speaker 8: watch offensively, and yet when they rip off big runs,

1927
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 8: they are majestic, and they were for Jonathan Taylor today.

1928
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:08,160
Speaker 8: Was nice to have see him get a bounce back game,

1929
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 8: whereas on the other side, you know, you're turning the

1930
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 8: ball over left and right. Mason Rudolph throws three picks

1931
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 8: and the Colts capitalized. So this is what they should

1932
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:18,120
Speaker 8: do against a team like this, even a divisional opponent.

1933
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:20,400
Speaker 8: But the fact that it ended an eight point game.

1934
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 8: I'm sitting here watching it, I'm like, all right, this

1935
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 8: game is over. Like I could start recapping and finishing

1936
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:27,680
Speaker 8: the notes here, and then all of a sudden, oh,

1937
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:29,639
Speaker 8: there's a touchdown and there's another touchdown.

1938
01:29:29,640 --> 01:29:31,479
Speaker 5: I was like, don't do this, Colts, don't do this

1939
01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:33,320
Speaker 5: to me right now, not after what happened last.

1940
01:29:33,200 --> 01:29:35,519
Speaker 1: Fairness, the Titans never got the ball back with a

1941
01:29:35,640 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 1: chance to win the game. Well technically they did with

1942
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 1: three seconds and eighty nine yards correct to go, but

1943
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: it's too close for comfort for me.

1944
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead and get the stops, like it's greazy

1945
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 4: to consider this game right the Endian Hepolis Colts run

1946
01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:52,800
Speaker 4: for three hundred and thirty five yards, Tony Pollard gets

1947
01:29:52,880 --> 01:29:55,880
Speaker 4: thirty five yards on the ground, and Mason Rudolph has

1948
01:29:55,960 --> 01:29:56,439
Speaker 4: three picks.

1949
01:29:56,760 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 3: The Titans still scored thirty points.

1950
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 4: Like all of these things, all these things happened, and

1951
01:30:02,080 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 4: to where you know, Gus Bradley's unit can be solid,

1952
01:30:05,880 --> 01:30:08,360
Speaker 4: they can force up like they get bo Nicks to

1953
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:12,880
Speaker 4: throw those interceptions and they make plays. You can't have

1954
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:16,760
Speaker 4: Mason Rudolph leading touchdown drives like this, like it's it's

1955
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:19,880
Speaker 4: kind of irresponsible at this point, like late in the

1956
01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:23,400
Speaker 4: scenes where it's like we want to believe, but we're

1957
01:30:23,439 --> 01:30:25,360
Speaker 4: gonna need you guys to make just a few plays

1958
01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:27,320
Speaker 4: because this is the best game the offense has had.

1959
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Titans actually had a fifty one percent drop

1960
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:32,320
Speaker 1: back success rate, which is you know, very high out

1961
01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:34,760
Speaker 1: of so it was very much a Will Levis like

1962
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:38,000
Speaker 1: peak Will Levis game, which is actually most of the

1963
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:41,000
Speaker 1: plays were great except for all the turnovers. And that's

1964
01:30:41,040 --> 01:30:43,799
Speaker 1: how the Titans lose their twelfth game of the season.

1965
01:30:43,880 --> 01:30:47,519
Speaker 1: They are three and twelve. The Colts probably running the

1966
01:30:47,600 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 1: style of offense Colts fans had wanted to see all year.

1967
01:30:50,560 --> 01:30:52,439
Speaker 2: And I keep hearing that that's like they.

1968
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 1: Should have been doing this a lot. I think they've tried,

1969
01:30:55,760 --> 01:30:57,840
Speaker 1: they just haven't. It just hasn't worked as well. And

1970
01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:00,599
Speaker 1: for that to do it against a good Titans defense,

1971
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 1: They've tried, like they'd love to get up by this

1972
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:04,160
Speaker 1: much where they don't need to throw the ball, but

1973
01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,920
Speaker 1: that that's just not how most Sundays play out. But

1974
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 1: they do get this one, and they are still alive

1975
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:12,040
Speaker 1: heading into week seventeen.

1976
01:31:12,439 --> 01:31:14,720
Speaker 2: Let's take a quick break. We're gonna wrap up the

1977
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 2: slate with the other AFC team trying to just just

1978
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 2: hang on for dear life before we get to Sunday

1979
01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:32,320
Speaker 2: Night football. A chan to pitch.

1980
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:35,800
Speaker 3: He's got first off bore four and thirty five to thirty.

1981
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:42,160
Speaker 3: He's gonna score touchdown Dolphins right speed running down one

1982
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:45,240
Speaker 3: side again to me. This time he tuxed it to

1983
01:31:45,320 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 3: the house and that's gonna.

1984
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:46,840
Speaker 9: Do it.

1985
01:31:49,560 --> 01:31:51,880
Speaker 1: Whenever we get play the Dolphins theme song, It's a

1986
01:31:51,920 --> 01:31:59,160
Speaker 1: good day on NFL Daily Devin Hn, what a day

1987
01:31:59,240 --> 01:32:04,040
Speaker 1: this kid had helping the Dolphins win twenty nine to seventeen.

1988
01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 1: Was close throughout, but they bust it open late eighth

1989
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:09,960
Speaker 1: m leads the team in rushing with one hundred and

1990
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:12,799
Speaker 1: twenty yards and a touchdown and leads them in receiving

1991
01:32:12,920 --> 01:32:17,600
Speaker 1: with six catches and seventy yards through the air. That's

1992
01:32:17,680 --> 01:32:20,679
Speaker 1: just how Tua in this offense does it. At least

1993
01:32:20,800 --> 01:32:23,640
Speaker 1: shook on a day where Tyreek Hill's fantasy owners are

1994
01:32:23,680 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: probably pulling their hair out because he could have had

1995
01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:30,160
Speaker 1: like three more touchdowns than he did. Dolphins ultimately win

1996
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 1: on a day where the forty nine ers, as I

1997
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:34,880
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, were eliminated before they even took a snap.

1998
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have just a little bit of life here

1999
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:40,200
Speaker 1: at seven and eight, and.

2000
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 8: The Dolphins still attempted just ten passes of more than

2001
01:32:43,240 --> 01:32:45,280
Speaker 8: nine air yards. But that's neither here north there, because

2002
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 8: they won the football game.

2003
01:32:46,479 --> 01:32:46,680
Speaker 13: It was.

2004
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:49,479
Speaker 2: That's a huge bump up from usual, right I know.

2005
01:32:49,560 --> 01:32:51,160
Speaker 8: There was one pass over the middle of Royal was like,

2006
01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 8: oh my god, it's beyond fifteen yards.

2007
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:54,799
Speaker 5: Here we go, here's the breakthrough.

2008
01:32:55,240 --> 01:32:57,679
Speaker 8: There would have been a really nice pass to Tyreek

2009
01:32:57,760 --> 01:33:00,120
Speaker 8: Kill if not for a great play in coverage the

2010
01:33:00,160 --> 01:33:03,720
Speaker 8: nearest forty nine er, and that kind of captured the

2011
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 8: day in a nutshell, like a lot of near misses

2012
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:09,240
Speaker 8: almost for the Dolphins. But they finished it off and

2013
01:33:09,280 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 8: they did what they had to do, which was win

2014
01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 8: a game against a team that honestly looked like they

2015
01:33:13,160 --> 01:33:15,120
Speaker 8: played like the better team for stretches in this game,

2016
01:33:15,160 --> 01:33:17,000
Speaker 8: but couldn't finished off their own drives because they would

2017
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:19,240
Speaker 8: commit penalties and then they would take negative you know,

2018
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:22,160
Speaker 8: yardage plays in the worst possible situations and miss field goals.

2019
01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:23,760
Speaker 5: And that's just who the forty nine ers are this season.

2020
01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:26,360
Speaker 5: So it's a battle of two teams that have underwhelmed.

2021
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:29,320
Speaker 8: But the Dolphins are probably playing better football right now overall,

2022
01:33:29,479 --> 01:33:31,400
Speaker 8: and that leads to what you got today.

2023
01:33:31,520 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were basically the same in terms of yards

2024
01:33:33,479 --> 01:33:35,720
Speaker 1: for play in total yards even with that late eight

2025
01:33:35,840 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 1: ten touchdown. Some with you, I think though, we did

2026
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 1: learn there is a at some point you're going to

2027
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:44,360
Speaker 1: get to the part of the running back depth chart

2028
01:33:44,439 --> 01:33:47,040
Speaker 1: where it actually hurts you that you're on your fifth

2029
01:33:47,280 --> 01:33:51,120
Speaker 1: running back. No offense to Patrick Taylor. He's also playing

2030
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:54,360
Speaker 1: without Trent Williams to help him out and against a

2031
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:58,799
Speaker 1: pretty good Dolphins front, but they're rushing attack collapse. Purty

2032
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 1: led them with rush Deebo, who had his best game

2033
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: of the season. I thought looked really explosive. I was

2034
01:34:04,960 --> 01:34:06,920
Speaker 1: just like, where has this Deebo been all year? He

2035
01:34:07,000 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: goes seven for ninety six, uh, and a touchdown through

2036
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:12,000
Speaker 1: the air and also had five for twenty five on

2037
01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:14,400
Speaker 1: the ground and just looked way faster and more physical.

2038
01:34:14,439 --> 01:34:17,360
Speaker 1: And he's such a confusing player to me because it

2039
01:34:17,520 --> 01:34:20,960
Speaker 1: just he just hasn't been this player this season. Ultimately, yeah,

2040
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 1: you called it out. They just shot themselves in the foot,

2041
01:34:23,840 --> 01:34:27,519
Speaker 1: and I'm glad because, uh, at least the Dolphins have

2042
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:28,920
Speaker 1: a relevant Week seventeen.

2043
01:34:29,120 --> 01:34:29,759
Speaker 2: Why are you laughing?

2044
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:32,240
Speaker 3: Well, it's like, I'm glad the forty nine ers shot

2045
01:34:32,280 --> 01:34:33,200
Speaker 3: themselves in the foot.

2046
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:36,559
Speaker 1: I just mean, I just mean the Okay, Yeah, that's

2047
01:34:36,760 --> 01:34:41,439
Speaker 1: that's fair. I wasn't glad to be really real because

2048
01:34:41,479 --> 01:34:43,760
Speaker 1: I picked them to win, and I was that was

2049
01:34:44,040 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 1: that was a just Greg on Our Game Debut show,

2050
01:34:46,200 --> 01:34:46,479
Speaker 1: and that.

2051
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 2: That did not did not hit for me.

2052
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 1: The forty nine ers that they were already eliminated. They

2053
01:34:51,439 --> 01:34:54,320
Speaker 1: have a big spot though. In Week seventeen they were

2054
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:57,200
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football against the Lions, so we'll watch them.

2055
01:34:57,560 --> 01:35:01,080
Speaker 1: But the Dolphins Browns game now at least has a

2056
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:05,720
Speaker 1: little bit of relevance. That's only if the Broncos are

2057
01:35:05,800 --> 01:35:09,120
Speaker 1: not able to clinch their playoff spot on Saturday. But

2058
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:13,800
Speaker 1: if the Broncos lose on Saturday, then the Dolphins who.

2059
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:16,439
Speaker 1: It depends a little bit on the like who wins,

2060
01:35:16,439 --> 01:35:19,559
Speaker 1: who doesn't, But ultimately they're behind the Colts in line

2061
01:35:19,720 --> 01:35:22,759
Speaker 1: I believe for these playoff spots. But it also depends

2062
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:24,320
Speaker 1: if it's two way, three way four weeks, so that

2063
01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:27,720
Speaker 1: there's a lot that could happen depending on what the

2064
01:35:29,160 --> 01:35:29,920
Speaker 1: combination is.

2065
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:32,360
Speaker 2: The Dolphins they're alive, just barely.

2066
01:35:33,439 --> 01:35:36,559
Speaker 8: Yeah, not to add on to the whole like gross

2067
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:38,240
Speaker 8: idea that the Colts made the playoffs, But if I

2068
01:35:38,280 --> 01:35:39,880
Speaker 8: had to pick between the Dolphins and the Colts, I

2069
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:41,720
Speaker 8: would also pick the Dolphins to go to the playoffs.

2070
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 2: I would too.

2071
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:47,280
Speaker 1: According to next Gen Stats, they have the Bengals and

2072
01:35:47,720 --> 01:35:51,400
Speaker 1: the Dolphins both at seven percent. I remember I said

2073
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:53,759
Speaker 1: twenty six before. That was from like there's different models.

2074
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 1: I trust next Gen that's us. They both have a

2075
01:35:57,240 --> 01:36:01,639
Speaker 1: seven percent. Colts are at thirteen and the Broncos are

2076
01:36:01,720 --> 01:36:04,800
Speaker 1: at seventy eight. So yes, it's pretty rare. And now

2077
01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 1: that we've reached the portion of the program where we've

2078
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:11,400
Speaker 1: gotten rid of all the potential playoff teams, just to

2079
01:36:11,520 --> 01:36:17,120
Speaker 1: recap today, the teams eliminated the Cardinals, the forty nine Ers,

2080
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:21,280
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and the Saints, and yeah, other than the Cardinals,

2081
01:36:22,120 --> 01:36:25,720
Speaker 1: all of them were eliminated before they even played. And

2082
01:36:25,840 --> 01:36:29,960
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are just holding on for dear life, needing

2083
01:36:30,479 --> 01:36:33,600
Speaker 1: Arizona almost certainly to win that game next week, but

2084
01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 1: you never know. You can hold on for dear life

2085
01:36:35,520 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 1: for a few weeks. The Dolphins and the Bengals and

2086
01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:39,960
Speaker 1: the Colts have been and they are still alive. Let's

2087
01:36:40,000 --> 01:36:44,240
Speaker 1: go to the one game on Sunday that mattered most

2088
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:47,639
Speaker 1: for draft positioning to Las Vegas.

2089
01:36:48,520 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 2: That droll alone setback.

2090
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:52,120
Speaker 11: He gets the handoff, cuts through the right side of

2091
01:36:52,160 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 11: the hole, still on his.

2092
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:56,240
Speaker 6: Fit at the five pricing of the end zone, touchdown Raiders.

2093
01:36:57,040 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 2: Oh, a mirror the magnificent season.

2094
01:37:01,160 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 6: He hands the ball to Jackson powers Johnson big Man's fight.

2095
01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:07,800
Speaker 2: Raiders lead nineteen.

2096
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:10,160
Speaker 11: Fourteen with eleven twenty six to go on the forward.

2097
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:15,000
Speaker 1: That is some professional broadcasting by Jason Horowitz on KRLV.

2098
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:18,160
Speaker 1: He's got the juice, he's got the excitement. He knows

2099
01:37:18,280 --> 01:37:22,479
Speaker 1: Raiders fans want to win, even though maybe they shouldn't it.

2100
01:37:22,640 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a mirror. What did he say, the magnificent magnificence. Yeah,

2101
01:37:27,600 --> 01:37:31,080
Speaker 2: I love it is a mere having that great a season.

2102
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:32,320
Speaker 2: I didn't know he's coming.

2103
01:37:32,479 --> 01:37:35,760
Speaker 4: He's been fantasy relevant late this season, but magnificent is

2104
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:36,160
Speaker 4: a stretch.

2105
01:37:36,280 --> 01:37:39,559
Speaker 1: He does have five touchdowns on the season. I'm looking

2106
01:37:39,680 --> 01:37:42,280
Speaker 1: here now, he's over four yards per carry. He's got

2107
01:37:42,320 --> 01:37:45,560
Speaker 1: a top four hundred yards from scrimmage for only the

2108
01:37:45,640 --> 01:37:50,200
Speaker 1: fourth time in a long career. I mean, he was

2109
01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:53,040
Speaker 1: a rookie in two thousand and fifteen. I will never

2110
01:37:53,120 --> 01:37:56,879
Speaker 1: forget that preseason because our good friend who this podcast

2111
01:37:57,000 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: studio is named after, Chris Wesley, loved him some a

2112
01:37:59,439 --> 01:38:02,480
Speaker 1: mere abdu after the twenty fifteen preseason.

2113
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:04,200
Speaker 2: So here he is still getting it done.

2114
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:09,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, their defense did the rest against a rough

2115
01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:14,760
Speaker 1: Mac Jones led Jaguars team. Patrick, I'm sorry that Mac

2116
01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: Jones's only good moment in the last few weeks was

2117
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,600
Speaker 1: finding a wide wide, wide wide open Brian Thomas for

2118
01:38:20,640 --> 01:38:24,240
Speaker 1: a long touchdown, which was crucial in your fantasy semi final.

2119
01:38:24,600 --> 01:38:27,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so now I have to rely on, you know,

2120
01:38:28,160 --> 01:38:30,680
Speaker 4: a Monday night football game to try to get back

2121
01:38:30,720 --> 01:38:33,200
Speaker 4: in the best fantasy team I've had. Nobody cares about that,

2122
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:36,080
Speaker 4: But Brian Thomas goes over a thousand yards in his

2123
01:38:36,200 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 4: rookie season, Brock Bowers went over a thousand yards, and hey,

2124
01:38:40,360 --> 01:38:42,760
Speaker 4: something to feel good about for these franchises where they've

2125
01:38:42,840 --> 01:38:46,679
Speaker 4: got really good rookies and a whole lot, a whole

2126
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:48,720
Speaker 4: lot of issues going on other than that, But you

2127
01:38:48,800 --> 01:38:50,960
Speaker 4: got those two pieces for both of these franchis.

2128
01:38:51,000 --> 01:38:53,679
Speaker 1: Yes, Bowers goes eleven for ninety nine and Thomas goes

2129
01:38:53,760 --> 01:38:57,120
Speaker 1: nine for one thirty two in a touchdown. And I'll

2130
01:38:57,160 --> 01:38:59,360
Speaker 1: keep repeating it, Brian Thomas would be my wide receiver

2131
01:38:59,479 --> 01:39:03,639
Speaker 1: one right now from this class. Reasonable minds could absolutely disagree,

2132
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:08,000
Speaker 1: but to me, they got a top five, top eight

2133
01:39:08,120 --> 01:39:12,000
Speaker 1: type of talent back at pick sixteen or seventeen and Bowers.

2134
01:39:12,880 --> 01:39:15,120
Speaker 1: There's a reason why so many teams were so high

2135
01:39:15,120 --> 01:39:16,960
Speaker 1: on him. The Rams are trying to trade up for

2136
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:19,960
Speaker 1: I might take him over all those wide receivers too.

2137
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:23,920
Speaker 1: I might take him over Brian Thomas. They're awesome, and

2138
01:39:24,080 --> 01:39:26,640
Speaker 1: so that's the good news. But both these teams are

2139
01:39:26,720 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 1: now at three and twelve, and the Raiders fall all

2140
01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:34,360
Speaker 1: the way to six. In tankathon right now, it is

2141
01:39:34,600 --> 01:39:38,479
Speaker 1: wide open, though there are six teams at two or

2142
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: three losses, but there's only one at two, and that's

2143
01:39:41,400 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. So the New York Giants, they

2144
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:49,120
Speaker 1: have the Colts, and who do they have to finish

2145
01:39:49,200 --> 01:39:52,559
Speaker 1: the season. I believe it's the Eagles to finish the season,

2146
01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:55,479
Speaker 1: and unless they pull off a big upset in one

2147
01:39:55,520 --> 01:39:57,880
Speaker 1: of those games, I guess the Colts is a somewhat

2148
01:39:57,920 --> 01:39:58,800
Speaker 1: reasonable ask.

2149
01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:01,559
Speaker 2: They are going to have the number one overall pick.

2150
01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:04,200
Speaker 1: So there's some good news for the Giants and the Raiders,

2151
01:40:04,560 --> 01:40:07,280
Speaker 1: because of their hard strength to schedule, actually fall all

2152
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:08,000
Speaker 1: the way to six.

2153
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:08,559
Speaker 2: Right now.

2154
01:40:08,680 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 1: The Patriots are at two, the Jaguars, three, Titans, four,

2155
01:40:12,920 --> 01:40:13,679
Speaker 1: Browns five.

2156
01:40:13,840 --> 01:40:16,080
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of a lot of road to

2157
01:40:16,160 --> 01:40:16,559
Speaker 2: hoe here.

2158
01:40:16,600 --> 01:40:20,280
Speaker 1: Because the Patriots could be playing backups and who knows

2159
01:40:20,560 --> 01:40:24,120
Speaker 1: what happens. Maybe you're brownsing sneak into the top there, shooky.

2160
01:40:24,960 --> 01:40:26,960
Speaker 8: I know people in Cleveland are paying very close attention

2161
01:40:27,040 --> 01:40:29,800
Speaker 8: to the whole the ha a friend texting me tonight

2162
01:40:29,800 --> 01:40:32,519
Speaker 8: about the Raiders and about the Panthers, so they're very

2163
01:40:32,600 --> 01:40:34,640
Speaker 8: much in tune with that. Raiders fans, if you need

2164
01:40:34,720 --> 01:40:37,000
Speaker 8: one reason to watch your team over the last two weeks,

2165
01:40:37,280 --> 01:40:40,040
Speaker 8: brock Bauers is now ten receiving yards away from setting

2166
01:40:40,240 --> 01:40:42,640
Speaker 8: the rookie tight end receiving.

2167
01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:44,400
Speaker 5: Yards record in a single season. It was owned by

2168
01:40:44,479 --> 01:40:46,679
Speaker 5: Mike Ditka at yards.

2169
01:40:46,760 --> 01:40:48,680
Speaker 8: He's at one thousand and sixty seven with his one

2170
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,200
Speaker 8: hundred and one catches and four receiving touchdowns, So keep

2171
01:40:51,200 --> 01:40:51,640
Speaker 8: an eye on that.

2172
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:55,040
Speaker 5: And also you're gonna hate it in April.

2173
01:40:55,160 --> 01:40:57,120
Speaker 8: But today was one of those wins that you know,

2174
01:40:57,280 --> 01:40:59,240
Speaker 8: gives a fan base a little bit to cheer about.

2175
01:40:59,280 --> 01:41:02,840
Speaker 8: Going into the wind like we're in December. It doesn't

2176
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,680
Speaker 8: matter except for draft positioning. And yet they've had so

2177
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:08,200
Speaker 8: many things to go against them, and today the breaks

2178
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:11,120
Speaker 8: went their way, and that alone just made me happy

2179
01:41:11,200 --> 01:41:13,040
Speaker 8: for them because it's been a rough year.

2180
01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:14,960
Speaker 1: Shout out Mike dikab By the way, when you have

2181
01:41:15,040 --> 01:41:17,640
Speaker 1: a record from nineteen sixty one that he did in

2182
01:41:17,840 --> 01:41:21,680
Speaker 1: fourteen games, we're always like greatest of all time. And

2183
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 1: he didn't have the longevity that the other great titands have,

2184
01:41:25,600 --> 01:41:27,840
Speaker 1: so he's really not in the consideration. But the first

2185
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:32,000
Speaker 1: five six years of his career he was totally dominant,

2186
01:41:32,080 --> 01:41:35,880
Speaker 1: all pro type of player before obviously becoming the Bears coach.

2187
01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 5: That record is as old as my dad. That was

2188
01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:41,040
Speaker 5: the area of born, so rock powers.

2189
01:41:41,080 --> 01:41:44,200
Speaker 1: If you break it sixty one, Yeah, when you're going

2190
01:41:44,280 --> 01:41:47,519
Speaker 1: fifty six for over one thousand and seventy six and

2191
01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:51,200
Speaker 1: twelve and fourteen games as a rookie of that, that's

2192
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:54,040
Speaker 1: a real man. That is a beast, and you know

2193
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,519
Speaker 1: he did it. Did it for the Chicago Bears. Finished

2194
01:41:57,560 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: his career with the Dallas Cowboys.

2195
01:42:00,800 --> 01:42:01,160
Speaker 2: Patrick.

2196
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:03,519
Speaker 1: I used to accuse you of being a Dallas Cowboys fan.

2197
01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:05,920
Speaker 1: You have beat the accusations.

2198
01:42:06,320 --> 01:42:06,760
Speaker 3: You did it.

2199
01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:09,000
Speaker 1: You have played her. You're you're as tough as a

2200
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:11,479
Speaker 1: as a rookie. Mike Dika, Well, don't.

2201
01:42:11,400 --> 01:42:13,400
Speaker 4: I don't know about I don't know about that for sure,

2202
01:42:13,640 --> 01:42:16,759
Speaker 4: but I appreciated the time and the opportunity and pending

2203
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:19,679
Speaker 4: our last discussion, uh, you know, it's it's a tempole

2204
01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:22,200
Speaker 4: event that sometimes masquerades is a cost control metric.

2205
01:42:22,240 --> 01:42:23,280
Speaker 3: But let's abolish the draft.

2206
01:42:23,439 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 4: Let's let's let's have people stop cheering for losses because

2207
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 4: it's weird and it takes the fun away from things.

2208
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:32,040
Speaker 1: Towards the end of thee I agree, I I think

2209
01:42:32,120 --> 01:42:33,800
Speaker 1: there's a better way that we could do this. I

2210
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:36,400
Speaker 1: was absolutely and there wasn't even like a little bit

2211
01:42:36,479 --> 01:42:38,880
Speaker 1: of my heart that wanted the Patriots to win today.

2212
01:42:39,080 --> 01:42:42,080
Speaker 1: I wanted Drake made to play a perfect game somehow

2213
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:44,559
Speaker 1: and them to lose. I was getting a little anxious.

2214
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:49,960
Speaker 1: And it is stupid. Also stupid this Cowboys season. Let's

2215
01:42:50,000 --> 01:42:52,120
Speaker 1: go to Dallas, nice fielding the.

2216
01:42:52,160 --> 01:42:56,720
Speaker 13: Gun, Sizeman Russia's lost, shocked that he's not down yet,

2217
01:42:57,360 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 13: and he somehow flew it to Wight who caught it,

2218
01:43:00,280 --> 01:43:03,559
Speaker 13: and then Hooker takes him down and the Plan comes

2219
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:04,320
Speaker 13: away with the ball.

2220
01:43:04,439 --> 01:43:05,960
Speaker 2: But he's got it. No, he's got it.

2221
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:06,880
Speaker 3: Blan's got it.

2222
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:09,920
Speaker 2: Oh, Blan comes away with the ball.

2223
01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:14,120
Speaker 1: Oh Plan came away with the ball, and the Cowboys

2224
01:43:14,880 --> 01:43:17,479
Speaker 1: somehow came away with the victory twenty six to twenty

2225
01:43:17,560 --> 01:43:22,920
Speaker 1: four on Sunday Night Football, one of the sneaky, most entertaining,

2226
01:43:23,240 --> 01:43:29,639
Speaker 1: surprising primetime games of the year. We finish our Sunday

2227
01:43:29,800 --> 01:43:33,360
Speaker 1: slate with one of the most important results of the day.

2228
01:43:33,400 --> 01:43:36,200
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers are out of the playoffs if the season

2229
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:36,800
Speaker 1: ended today.

2230
01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:38,400
Speaker 2: Lucky for them it does not.

2231
01:43:38,600 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 1: They have two weeks to try to pass Atlanta. But

2232
01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:46,160
Speaker 1: what a disappointing loss on a night Nick shook where

2233
01:43:46,439 --> 01:43:48,920
Speaker 1: there was a lot of hard hitting and so I

2234
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:51,680
Speaker 1: thought it was fitting that it was Jordan Lewis and

2235
01:43:51,840 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 1: Deron Blan who were part of a great effort in

2236
01:43:55,240 --> 01:43:59,519
Speaker 1: that Cowboys secondary finishing off the victory. And yeah, that

2237
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:02,040
Speaker 1: was our our friend Brad sham over at k r

2238
01:44:02,360 --> 01:44:06,360
Speaker 1: LD and Babe Lafenburg given Cowboys fans something to enjoy

2239
01:44:07,000 --> 01:44:08,160
Speaker 1: during a seven and eight season.

2240
01:44:08,160 --> 01:44:09,559
Speaker 2: They're only one game behind the Bucks.

2241
01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:11,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, you had me pant there for a second. I

2242
01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:14,400
Speaker 8: was like, wait, they're not out of the playoffs this

2243
01:44:14,520 --> 01:44:17,200
Speaker 8: season ended today, which it does not. One of the

2244
01:44:17,280 --> 01:44:19,759
Speaker 8: most one of the hardest hitting games I can recall,

2245
01:44:19,920 --> 01:44:22,800
Speaker 8: especially in the secondary in a long time. I mean,

2246
01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:29,160
Speaker 8: Cowboys defenders just laying the wood sticks on Buccaneers pass catchers,

2247
01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:32,000
Speaker 8: tight ends, receivers, no matter what you could say, Well,

2248
01:44:32,080 --> 01:44:34,000
Speaker 8: Baker might have thrown a hospital ball or two, No,

2249
01:44:34,080 --> 01:44:34,680
Speaker 8: I don't think so.

2250
01:44:34,920 --> 01:44:36,800
Speaker 2: I think that it was meant you.

2251
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:37,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

2252
01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:40,160
Speaker 8: But at the same time, the Cowboys were hitting like

2253
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:42,280
Speaker 8: they were just closing. They were playing great defense in

2254
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:45,679
Speaker 8: the secondary. They made some phenomenal plays. That interception Lewis

2255
01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:48,880
Speaker 8: had on that deep ball thrown by Baker Mayfield was

2256
01:44:48,920 --> 01:44:50,720
Speaker 8: a fantastic play. And then the game, the play that

2257
01:44:50,760 --> 01:44:52,800
Speaker 8: we just heard there to clinch it for them. A

2258
01:44:53,040 --> 01:44:55,120
Speaker 8: wild game, really, you said, you know, one of the

2259
01:44:55,160 --> 01:44:59,720
Speaker 8: most entertaining, an incredibly volatile game that it never was

2260
01:44:59,760 --> 01:45:02,000
Speaker 8: really out of reach. The Buccaneers kind of started to

2261
01:45:02,040 --> 01:45:04,160
Speaker 8: run out of time and then right before you you know,

2262
01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:07,200
Speaker 8: they just instantly two minute drill their way down the field.

2263
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:09,519
Speaker 8: Baker looks sharp, they move the ball right down that

2264
01:45:09,600 --> 01:45:11,960
Speaker 8: they score, and suddenly we had a ball game until

2265
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:14,920
Speaker 8: we didn't because of a defensive play. So I win

2266
01:45:15,040 --> 01:45:17,439
Speaker 8: for the Cowboys in a season that is lost. But

2267
01:45:18,360 --> 01:45:20,560
Speaker 8: you know, there, it kind of makes you think what

2268
01:45:20,600 --> 01:45:22,240
Speaker 8: would happen if they had Dak Prescott.

2269
01:45:22,439 --> 01:45:25,519
Speaker 1: Well, not just that, Tariico pointed out, they'd be on

2270
01:45:25,560 --> 01:45:28,200
Speaker 1: a five game winning streak if they just didn't mishandle

2271
01:45:28,280 --> 01:45:30,360
Speaker 1: that block pun against the Bengals, the Bengals would be

2272
01:45:30,400 --> 01:45:34,000
Speaker 1: eliminated and the Cowboys would be eight and seven and

2273
01:45:34,120 --> 01:45:36,599
Speaker 1: not really going anywhere with that record in the NFC,

2274
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:38,400
Speaker 1: but they'd be on a five game winning streak. I

2275
01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 1: think long term for the Cowboys, this win has a

2276
01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 1: good chance to save Mike McCarthy's job, Mike Zimmers' job.

2277
01:45:45,840 --> 01:45:47,479
Speaker 2: I think it's been trendy in that direction.

2278
01:45:47,640 --> 01:45:51,160
Speaker 1: If you listen to the reporting around the Cowboys and

2279
01:45:51,800 --> 01:45:54,800
Speaker 1: even the speculation from Collinsworth, who's not just throwing stuff

2280
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: out there, I would be surprised at this point if

2281
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:00,960
Speaker 1: McCarthy isn't back now, the next two weeks could still happen.

2282
01:46:01,040 --> 01:46:03,200
Speaker 1: But Mike zimmer in this defense has been one of

2283
01:46:03,320 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 1: the very best defenses in the league now over a

2284
01:46:06,400 --> 01:46:09,560
Speaker 1: six to seven week stretch with Micah Parsons back, And

2285
01:46:10,160 --> 01:46:13,280
Speaker 1: don't forget that this Buccaneers offense had been playing great

2286
01:46:13,400 --> 01:46:15,479
Speaker 1: and you look at the numbers and they're not that bad.

2287
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:18,280
Speaker 1: They end up getting over four hundred yards twenty five

2288
01:46:18,320 --> 01:46:22,760
Speaker 1: first downs. Even Baker's numbers look okay, but he was

2289
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:26,400
Speaker 1: a little panicked. He took some sacks in spots that

2290
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:29,840
Speaker 1: he shouldn't four sacks there for the Cowboys. That last

2291
01:46:29,920 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 1: play was kind of typical.

2292
01:46:31,640 --> 01:46:33,200
Speaker 2: He doesn't have.

2293
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:35,439
Speaker 1: Great process, but he ends up holding the ball. He's

2294
01:46:35,439 --> 01:46:37,760
Speaker 1: really strong and he finds a way to make a play.

2295
01:46:38,479 --> 01:46:42,479
Speaker 1: But the Cowboys ultimately make an extra play and it's

2296
01:46:42,520 --> 01:46:44,800
Speaker 1: a devastating loss for them. They had one four straight.

2297
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:47,679
Speaker 1: You can't win them all, but they thought they would

2298
01:46:47,720 --> 01:46:49,200
Speaker 1: win this one in Dallas.

2299
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, on paper, I had them winning this one going away.

2300
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 8: But I think that it speaks to what you just

2301
01:46:54,960 --> 01:46:57,400
Speaker 8: mentioned with the coaching staff. I felt like watching this game,

2302
01:46:57,439 --> 01:47:00,040
Speaker 8: even in the third and fourth quarter, that the I

2303
01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:02,679
Speaker 8: was out coach the Buccaneers like they were not maybe

2304
01:47:02,720 --> 01:47:04,840
Speaker 8: a full step ahead, but a half ste step ahead

2305
01:47:04,840 --> 01:47:08,080
Speaker 8: offensively just doing basically having a counter for whatever the

2306
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:11,040
Speaker 8: Buccaneers defense did. Now, granted, they punted a lot late there,

2307
01:47:11,160 --> 01:47:12,760
Speaker 8: but they were able to stay on the field for

2308
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:14,599
Speaker 8: a decent amount and kind of keep the Buccaneers at bay.

2309
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:16,879
Speaker 8: They also had some making and some and some takeaways

2310
01:47:16,880 --> 01:47:20,120
Speaker 8: and stuff like that. And then I felt like, you know, defensively,

2311
01:47:20,520 --> 01:47:22,240
Speaker 8: every time the Buccaneers tried to throw the ball down

2312
01:47:22,280 --> 01:47:23,599
Speaker 8: the field. It's just like they had a great game

2313
01:47:23,680 --> 01:47:25,720
Speaker 8: plan for what the Bucks liked to do, and it

2314
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:27,679
Speaker 8: wasn't until they went up tempo that they were able

2315
01:47:27,720 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 8: to find some success.

2316
01:47:28,720 --> 01:47:30,000
Speaker 5: It was a difficult night for Baker.

2317
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:31,320
Speaker 8: I mean, I know numbers, why I thirty one or

2318
01:47:31,360 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 8: forty three three h three two touchdowns and that pick

2319
01:47:33,240 --> 01:47:36,559
Speaker 8: that we talked about looks good. But nothing came easy

2320
01:47:36,640 --> 01:47:37,800
Speaker 8: for him. And I think that's a credit to Mike

2321
01:47:37,880 --> 01:47:41,559
Speaker 8: Zimmers defense, which is playing really well despite losing guys

2322
01:47:41,640 --> 01:47:43,200
Speaker 8: to Mario Overshonn not out there.

2323
01:47:43,280 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 2: You know, it's but they got.

2324
01:47:46,760 --> 01:47:48,799
Speaker 1: They got Bland back, which I know they lost Trevon

2325
01:47:48,880 --> 01:47:52,240
Speaker 1: Diggs now along the way too, but he's been playing

2326
01:47:52,320 --> 01:47:54,720
Speaker 1: really well. He was on Mike Evans for much of

2327
01:47:54,760 --> 01:47:56,920
Speaker 1: the night. He ends up picking up the fumble at

2328
01:47:57,000 --> 01:48:00,320
Speaker 1: the end. Obviously, Parsons playing really well, but Jordan Lewis,

2329
01:48:00,439 --> 01:48:04,120
Speaker 1: that whole group back there, Malie Hooker were making plays.

2330
01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:06,240
Speaker 2: I'm impressed. They were just hitting though.

2331
01:48:06,320 --> 01:48:09,960
Speaker 1: I mean on a night where they were hitting the

2332
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:12,639
Speaker 1: hit I think I'll remember the most is Vita Vea

2333
01:48:13,320 --> 01:48:17,360
Speaker 1: in coverage just destroying Jake Ferguson or else we wouldn't

2334
01:48:17,360 --> 01:48:20,360
Speaker 1: even had that closing sequence. Like Ferguson looked like he

2335
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:24,880
Speaker 1: was headed for a first down and Veya just absolutely

2336
01:48:25,400 --> 01:48:29,000
Speaker 1: destroys him. That was one of my favorite hits I've

2337
01:48:29,040 --> 01:48:31,360
Speaker 1: ever seen in my life, and it will not soon

2338
01:48:31,479 --> 01:48:34,439
Speaker 1: be forgotten. I want more Vita Vea in coverage just

2339
01:48:35,080 --> 01:48:37,559
Speaker 1: like him on an island, like covering tight ends and stuff.

2340
01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:38,240
Speaker 2: That would be fun.

2341
01:48:38,320 --> 01:48:39,960
Speaker 8: Test those hands. He said he used to play I

2342
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:41,880
Speaker 8: think quarterback or running back. I remember him talking about

2343
01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 8: that back of the combine back in the day.

2344
01:48:43,320 --> 01:48:44,400
Speaker 2: So yeah, we'd like that.

2345
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:48,719
Speaker 1: I I'm really glad they left the Cowboys in primetime,

2346
01:48:48,840 --> 01:48:50,280
Speaker 1: just like I said, you know you got you gotta

2347
01:48:50,560 --> 01:48:53,479
Speaker 1: leave this team in primetime. They actually have become sneaky

2348
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:55,519
Speaker 1: entertaining at the end of the season. I'll give him

2349
01:48:55,560 --> 01:48:57,400
Speaker 1: credit for that. On a night where they could not

2350
01:48:57,680 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 1: run the ball at all and Cooper Rush almost threw

2351
01:49:00,520 --> 01:49:02,439
Speaker 1: the ball away at the end of the game on

2352
01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 1: a near interception. He actually had a number of really

2353
01:49:05,479 --> 01:49:07,680
Speaker 1: nice throws down the field in the first half, a

2354
01:49:07,760 --> 01:49:10,400
Speaker 1: great one to Cooks, the touchdown to Tolbert was beautiful,

2355
01:49:11,120 --> 01:49:15,120
Speaker 1: a long one to Ceedee Lamb Cooper Rush played quite

2356
01:49:15,200 --> 01:49:17,400
Speaker 1: well at least for half of this game. And yeah,

2357
01:49:17,439 --> 01:49:20,840
Speaker 1: the Cowboys making it happen. At the end of the season,

2358
01:49:20,960 --> 01:49:25,519
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers finish with two very winnable games against the

2359
01:49:25,560 --> 01:49:28,760
Speaker 1: Panthers in Saints. But it's division matchups. You never know

2360
01:49:28,880 --> 01:49:31,880
Speaker 1: what could happen. They will need to win those two

2361
01:49:31,920 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: games to get to ten and seven. The Falcons close

2362
01:49:35,880 --> 01:49:39,439
Speaker 1: in Washington next week. That's the game that I think

2363
01:49:40,400 --> 01:49:43,920
Speaker 1: Bucks fans are gonna have circleed. That's Sunday Night football.

2364
01:49:44,479 --> 01:49:47,519
Speaker 1: They're gonna need some help from the Commanders because if not,

2365
01:49:48,760 --> 01:49:52,920
Speaker 1: I believe the Falcons close with the Panthers at home.

2366
01:49:53,000 --> 01:49:55,800
Speaker 1: I guess neither one of those are total gimmes, but

2367
01:49:56,280 --> 01:49:58,760
Speaker 1: we'll see. It gives us a little more spice for

2368
01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:00,639
Speaker 1: the NFC South down the stretch.

2369
01:50:00,720 --> 01:50:02,360
Speaker 2: That's what we're looking for, Shookie.

2370
01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:06,320
Speaker 8: Spice and the Cowboys are spicy, playing hard for a

2371
01:50:06,400 --> 01:50:08,080
Speaker 8: regime that a lot of people thought was probably gonna

2372
01:50:08,080 --> 01:50:09,040
Speaker 8: be gone about a month ago.

2373
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:09,439
Speaker 3: Maybe not.

2374
01:50:10,040 --> 01:50:13,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, look, let's play the music. We had

2375
01:50:14,040 --> 01:50:19,960
Speaker 2: a big day. Patrick Claybond, he played, he played through pain.

2376
01:50:21,080 --> 01:50:23,960
Speaker 1: We got Eric Roberts behind the glass sweating out the

2377
01:50:24,040 --> 01:50:24,679
Speaker 1: Bills game.

2378
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:27,680
Speaker 2: That's all we got.

2379
01:50:27,840 --> 01:50:32,679
Speaker 1: Look when when Michael Pennix Junior is leading a division

2380
01:50:33,680 --> 01:50:37,040
Speaker 1: possible champion into Week seventeen, you know football is back.