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Watch Unstoppable now exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:44.520 Welcome Man, What'll Driving the Great? 0:00:44.520 --> 0:00:51.239 Episode two ninety two on a Tuesday, leading into what 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.320 I think is the single best sports weekend of the year. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:03.320 NFL Divisional Round weekend is my a favorite forty eight 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:11.360 hours in sports all year, four games, almost almost always 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:16.280 at least six of the best eight teams, very often 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:21.040 seven of the best eight teams. And this year we 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.880 might have gone well, no, we didn't go eight for eight, 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.680 but I think we did as well as we could 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.319 have done, as far as going four for four in 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:36.480 each conference where we certainly have the three best in 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.679 each conference. Still remaining and then depending on what you 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:44.280 think of the Texans versus the field and the Commanders 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:45.319 versus the field. 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.600 But we should have two. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:57.400 Unbelievable games in Bill's Ravens and in Rams Eagles, and 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.920 two very interesting games games in Chiefs Texans and in 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:09.000 Lions Commanders. So I can't wait for that. However, Thursday's 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.680 show will be when we preview those games. Today's show 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.679 will be more about recapping the six games we saw 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.440 this weekend, so quickly what missed the cut that is 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:25.320 not in today's show. We are not discussing the National 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.960 Championship game in today's show. We will do a little 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.760 bit about on that on Thursday. Leangelo Ball signing with 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.160 def JAM this is something we will not be discussing that. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.440 I simply do not have as much interest in this 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:42.000 story as some of my colleagues and AJ Brown reading 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.040 on the sideline that actually is going to be in 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:50.320 the show at some point when we talk Eagles, partially 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.280 because I want to talk Eagles, but also partially because 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:58.400 nothing bothers me more than someone acting like I'm dumb. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:02.440 I'd rather you call me a son of a whatever 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.600 then just act like I'm an idiot and aj Brown 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.200 being like, why is everyone talking to me? What's the 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.320 problem here? While holding a giant sign above his head 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.840 that says talk to me. I want to be the 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:21.320 center of attention. Is bothersome? We will discuss that later 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.800 and from the look on my son's face seems like 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.240 maybe he disagrees with me, so maybe that will have 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.960 a good discussion on that, or maybe you're with me 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.320 on it. But let's start. De Mon's good to see 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:39.920 you pal with last night's game. Well, I'll let you 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:40.480 take it away. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:40.920 Go ahead. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:43.600 Yeah, So you've been praising the Rams all year and 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.480 they took care of business last night in dominant fashion. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.320 Would you attribute that to the Rams or is that 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.720 more of a Sam Donald meltdown type of thing. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:58.480 So, sadly, we got to start with Donald and this 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:04.200 is and I set it on last Thursday Show two 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:10.800 thursdays ago, so twelve days ago. I said, this is 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.160 one of the things that is so intoxicating to me 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:21.159 about sports, particularly professional football, but also one of the 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.799 cruelest things about him, which is if we go back 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.520 twelve days. So when we were sitting here on January second, 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:35.360 Sam Darnold had in front of him man. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.920 If I play great. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:47.160 On Sunday night, I'm a made man. We get the 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:53.240 one seed, we get the bye, I will end up 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.760 somewhere on MVP. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.760 Ballots, fourth or fifth. 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.080 I'm going to get more than, well more than one 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:10.000 hundred million dollars guaranteed this summer, and we'll see what 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:14.400 happens in the playoffs. That's where Sam Darnold was on 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:20.000 January second, Play great in one game, one more game. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.200 After playing some of the best football of his life. 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.559 Can I do it one more time on the road 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:33.560 in Detroit, get the one seed locked? And then on 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.200 the other side was whether he was thinking it or not. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:45.880 But if I play terribly, I then a week later 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:51.159 will go into a game where if I'm bad again, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:58.800 it's same old Sam, And forget one hundred million, forget 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:05.440 ninety million. I might be staring at, might be staring 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:11.840 at another year to year situation, and everyone's gonna say 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.040 the clock struck midnight, it's how thin the margins are. 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:22.840 Play great, one more game, change myself, my legacy, how 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.760 I'm thought of, and my family's life forever. Played terribly 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.320 in that game, and then the next game, my whole 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:36.120 career is on a knife's edge, and sadly for Sam, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.560 he went over to and he had his two worst 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:46.880 games of the year in two stand alone national television 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:53.200 Turiko and Collinsworth and then Aikman and Buck thirty plus 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:57.520 million people watching, and they watched him. 0:06:57.360 --> 0:06:58.560 Seeing ghosts again. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:06.880 And now, can any team in the league that actually 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:12.760 thinks they are contenders say to their fan base this offseason, guys, 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.280 here's what's gonna put us over the top, Sam Darnold 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:25.200 And they answer that question sadly's probably no. And the Vikings, 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.800 who drafted a quarterback in the first round last year 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.760 and wanted to give him the reins if he's healthy, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.200 are they just gonna hand the job to Sam Darnald 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.800 even if they bring him back. The answer to that 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:47.440 is no. And Aikman understandably kind of lit him on 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:53.200 fire last night, basically said, fourteen wins, schmorteen wins. You 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.320 played when it mattered most, and now people aren't gonna 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:57.840 believe in you. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.400 And they were really truly. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:09.480 Awful performances last night, Demons. Last night, he was worse 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:15.320 than the stats suggest Like the stats, Okay, seventy eight rating, 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.760 that's not good, but it's not you know, horrifying one touchdown, 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.840 one pick, two hundred and forty five yards. But if 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.679 you watched that game, he was shook from the opening moment. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.920 Every drive that just kind of ruined, ruined what they 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.520 had going on, couldn't get the ball out. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:36.640 And they were awful sacks, panicking early, trying to spin 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:41.800 out of pressure and then just getting cooked. And listen, 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.200 I didn't think Kevin O'Connell covered himself in glory last night. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.920 And Kevin O'Connell, who you know will be the latest 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.720 coach to win Coach of the Year instead of Andy Reid. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.680 That's cool, Like you know he's now Kevin O'Connell now 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.480 is to deal with the fact that he's had a 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.120 thirteen win team playoff home playoff game and lost to 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:06.479 Daniel Jones and a fourteen win team be a favorite 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.240 on it in a neutral site playoff game, not a 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:14.080 road playoff game anymore, neutral site and they scored nine points. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:25.360 But a Vikings offense that from before Thanksgiving demons. Here's 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.920 what the Vikings scored in each game, thirty twenty three, 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:35.280 forty two, thirty twenty seven, twenty seven and then nine 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:41.840 and nine. Everybody's got to wear it. But Kevin O'Connor. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:50.480 O'Connell's gonna be fine. The Vikings organization will regroup. I 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:55.760 don't know what it means for Sam Darnold, and it 0:09:55.920 --> 0:10:00.400 is a cruel reality. And this is why I get 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:08.160 so frustrated when for other quarterbacks that come up short 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:13.040 in a big spot, folks will lay on small sample 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:18.800 size guys. It's a small sample sized sport. Sam Donald 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:25.960 had around fifteen possessions, fifteen possessions that we're going to 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:32.000 change entirely. The trajectory of his entire career came up 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.160 short in them, and now he's just back to being 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:35.960 Sam Donald. 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.920 And do you think that there's anything significant that happened 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.600 in the last couple of weeks that you know, made 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:45.559 them flame out like that, or would you say that 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.080 they were frauds the entire time? 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.040 No, well, no, it's not that they were frauds the 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:50.840 entire time. 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:53.280 To take a little bit of a little bit of 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:53.840 the heat too. 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:58.760 Yeah, but it's but they lost Christian darrisaw months maybe 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.640 the best left tackle in football months ago and they 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:02.960 were fine. 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:08.720 They know what I what I think is and people 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:09.880 w say it's in the again. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.960 The offensive line wasn't great yesterday, and the Lions are 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.400 a better team, and you guys know, and we'll talk 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.000 more about them in a moment. How in what high 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.000 regard I think of the Rams. There is no shame 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.960 in losing to the Lions in the Rams. The shame 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.439 is not being competitive for ten minutes in either game. 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.880 That's the problem. But it's not that they were frauds 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:33.880 the whole time demands. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:34.640 It's that. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:41.719 The Vikings being this team was built on a foundation 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:48.320 of we're getting excellent quarterback play guys, thirty five touchdowns, 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.960 twelve picks. He's stepping up in the pocket against Seattle 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.760 game on the line, delivering a dime to Justin Jefferson 0:11:54.760 --> 0:12:00.600 in double coverage and the moment that went away, it 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:05.640 wasn't sustainable. So no, I don't think they're frauds anymore 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:13.760 than let's say the Bills this weekend get rocked because 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.719 Josh Allen has his worst. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:16.400 Game of the year. 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.360 That won't mean they were frauds. It would mean they 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.559 were a team. And this is you know, the Bills 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.600 are not the Vikings. If Iking to have more talent 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.280 across the roster, and the Bills don't have justin Jefferson. 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.000 But you don't see what I'm saying. They are a 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:35.040 team that was being lifted by elite quarterback play, and 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.480 that Darnald gave them elite play this year. I was 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:44.320 the guy saying, he beats the Lions, you have to 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:48.400 include him on your MVP ballot, but I don't. I'm 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:53.040 also the guy who does not find it in conflict 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.760 to believe that and also believe but if you lose 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:01.199 the Lions and plays poorly, the guys careers on the line. 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.720 That's what the that's what football is. It's a small 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.640 sample sized sport and Akman gets it. And I gotta 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.080 say I love Akman. I understand he left Fox, he 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.079 does ESPN now I don't care to me. He's still 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.160 always a Fox guy. He is such a made man. 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.040 He's like, I got three Super Bowl rings. I'm still 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.040 one of the most famous people in the world associated 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:28.280 with the NFL. I'm almost a universally popular broadcaster. I'm 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.600 calling some of the biggest games and I'm not gonna 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:34.920 couch anything. I'm gonna tell you how I feel. And 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.000 he just I mean Aikman. 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.600 And Buck who I don't know Troy at all. But 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:40.400 I know Joe. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.400 It would be a stretch to say we're friends, but 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:50.200 we've you know, I've spent some time with him. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:51.080 That sounded bad. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.800 Like my point is we don't know each other well 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.000 enough to win be like my friend Joe Buck. But 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.760 all the time I've seen with him has been great. 0:13:58.440 --> 0:13:58.760 Uh. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.520 And I love I've always love them as a crew. 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.840 But they they are in the tenured college professor part 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.000 of their careers where it's just like we're gonna. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.559 Call it as we see it. And I think that. 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:19.680 Cook Cooking the refs, that poor guy Russell or they're 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:24.000 they're ref analyst that Troy always kind of pokes fun at. 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.400 Russell York or York, I'm not sure his name. 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:28.760 Uh. 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.320 And then also Cooking, Well, no I'm saying that's correct, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.560 but I'm saying they're the guy who works with them 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:41.400 is like the ref analyst they fun at sometimes. And 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.960 I mean them being like, I don't know if the 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.880 Vikings know they're down eighteen points like it was it 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:51.160 was great now to the Rams. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:53.240 Demons. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:15:01.120 This is why all year long, whenever we talked about 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.800 teams that could win the Super Bowl, well no, that 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.720 was really just the Chiefs teams that could make the 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:16.520 Super Bowl. I shoehorned the Rams in that discussion. So 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:25.480 they've now since starting one in four are ten and three. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:31.520 You now also look at Matt Stafford since getting to 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:40.000 Los Angeles, demanse, here are his playoff numbers, Okay, because 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:47.000 they are, I promise better than you'd imagine. Six games, 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.920 five wins, one loss, and that one loss was by 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:57.680 a point. Thirteen touchdowns, three picks, two hundred and ninety 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:04.359 five yards passing a game, one twelve rating, seventy percent completions, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:10.920 eight point seven yards per attempt. Every single postseason, he's 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:17.520 been awesome. And he with the Rams, and that is 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:23.720 a dangerous, dangerous football team that is going to Philadelphia 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:28.240 next weekend. A dangerous team. Go ahead, if you have 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.040 another follow up there before we move on. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.800 H Yeah, So the Rams they opened up at six 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.680 and a half point dogs against Philly, and you're obviously 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.480 hyping them up heavily right now. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.600 Is there something Vegas is onto? What are they thinking that? 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:46.320 Well, yeah, listen, I get it. Philly's home. Philly was 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.400 a fourteen win team. The Rams were a ten win team. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:54.840 Philly seems to have the more complete roster, Rams got 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.800 the better quarterback, Rams got the better coach, and the 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:05.320 Rams defense has been elite for a month. That's the 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.360 other part of it. That it's not just that you're 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.960 getting playoff stafford and that the team was rested and fresh. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:19.439 It's also that the Rams the final three weeks that 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:26.320 they played their guys Demanse, they allowed six points, nine points, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:31.879 nine points, and now just allowed nine points again. So 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.199 in the last four games since the Rams beat the 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.080 Bills forty four to forty two, they've allowed thirty three 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:40.600 points in four games. 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:44.040 Man, So. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.000 Yeah, I mean, I certainly like the Rams plus the points. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:50.240 What'd you say? 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:51.200 Yeah? 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.639 No, I think Philly is gonna have a lot of trouble, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.800 especially considering what they just did in their past playoff performance. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.879 I don't think, you know, a real team turn the 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.600 ball over that many times. I think they're gonna capitalize 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:04.840 on it. 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:07.920 And so, and let me say something else. 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:16.880 If Conference Championship weekend the AFC's taken care of, it's 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:21.680 gonna be Mahomes versus one of the guys. Right, Either 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:27.960 Mahomes Allen is unbelievable, Mahomes Lamar is unbelievable, Like either way, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:34.640 that's fifty million people captivated with the King of the Mountain, 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.720 with either the MVP or runner up MVP, no matter 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.280 who it is, trying to knock him off after never 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.879 beating him in the playoffs, either one of these guys. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:50.600 If in the NFC, it's the Lions trying to go 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.880 to their first Super Bowl and franchise history and coming 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:05.040 into town, is there guy Matt Stafford and it's the 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:11.160 Stafford golf trade. It's all of it. McVeigh, Dan Campbell, 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:19.280 Holy molly, Like what an what unbelievable drama that would be? 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:24.000 Now again, the Eagles commanders or I guess Texans could 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.680 throw a wrench in that Ravens Bills, doesn't really matter 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:31.679 either way. The story's amazing. But yeah, man, that's I 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.360 think that's what we're staring at all. Right, let's move 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.439 on to some AFC games. 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.320 Yeah, So Baltimore destroyed Pittsburgh from start to finish. Lamar 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.639 Jackson was making the big place, he was making the 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.160 small place. I think that he's starting to kill that narrative. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:49.440 Do you need to see more from him? 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.240 More? Do you need to see from him? 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:52.520 No? 0:19:52.600 --> 0:19:54.879 So, I in order for me to be like Yep, 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:57.840 you don't have to worry about him in the playoffs anymore. 0:19:58.320 --> 0:19:59.920 I certainly do need to see more. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:04.000 This was a huge step in the right direction, and 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.760 I won't minimize it because here is the thing that 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.159 I thought was unique about this game, and this people 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:15.359 got Whenever people talk about the Houston game last year 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.159 and I point out the fact that he was not 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.040 very good in the first half of that game, people 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:25.000 think I'm being unfair because he was so good in 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:30.119 the second half that why does it matter? It matters 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:35.160 only in this context we had never seen We had 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:38.640 only seen Lamar have won prior to this weekend one 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:43.080 good playoff game in his career, and even in that game, 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:46.480 he was shaky for a half, got his footing, and 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:53.960 then was excellent. Saturday Demanse he was awesome from the 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.040 first play of the game. There was no like the 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:02.679 and the game's a blowout out eventually, but it was 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:09.639 opening drive third and thirteen third and thirteen dime touchdown 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.680 pass like that. The game wouldn't have blow out. Then 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.040 all the nerves were there. Then you're playing Pittsburgh like 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.959 so he gets a ton of credit for that, a 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:23.040 ton of credit for that. 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:25.720 Now I have. 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:33.200 Consistently made and some people look at this as a compliment. 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:35.520 Some people look at this as an insult. I mean 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:41.280 it as neither. But I've consistently made the Peyton Manning comparison. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.719 And we went through that playoff game log last week, 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.200 so we'll do it once more. 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:52.240 The Peyton. 0:21:54.040 --> 0:22:00.280 In the three postseason had those two games where he 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.960 had eight touchdown zero picks and then in the conference 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:07.879 championship game one touchdown four picks disaster. 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:08.640 Right. 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:13.520 Take that to be Lamar last year where he had 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:15.719 the you know, was excellent in the game leading up 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.480 to the conference championship game than not good in the 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:20.960 conference championship game. Wasn't one touchdown four picks bad? But 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:24.800 also wasn't eight touchdown zero picks good? The very next year, 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:31.760 in his first playoff game Demons, Peyton Manning had five touchdowns, 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:36.480 one turnover, a one forty five right, and then in 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:39.240 the very next game they lost twenty to three and 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:41.959 he had zero touchdowns, one pick. I say that to 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:48.480 say this, I have not seen enough to say, oh, 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:54.560 he just is a different player, I will say, because 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:57.439 I don't think it was just a playoff thing for Lamar. 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:00.520 I thought it was his inability to beat the Steelers 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:04.080 in the regular season was a part of this. You 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:07.359 can now argue, Demanse, it's been two of these in 0:23:07.400 --> 0:23:12.080 a row, really good performances, the regular season game against 0:23:12.119 --> 0:23:16.879 Pittsburgh and then this playoff game. And I said this 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.040 on the TV show, but I want to say it 0:23:19.080 --> 0:23:24.720 again here because Danny said to me, he was like, yeah, 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:30.000 you've set yourself up, so as long as Lamar doesn't 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.720 win the super Bowl, you get to claim you were right. 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:39.480 That's not true that I in order for me to 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:45.119 believe Demanse that Lamar is over his playoff woes, he 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:47.680 does not have to win the super Bowl. He doesn't 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:50.720 even have to get to the super Bowl, because I 0:23:50.760 --> 0:23:53.480 don't think it's fair to ask anyone to beat Patrick 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:54.560 Mahomes and the Chiefs. 0:23:56.000 --> 0:23:57.640 What he has to do. 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:02.560 What is income been on Lamar as he's just first 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:07.600 team All Pro and might win MVP again, is that. 0:24:09.160 --> 0:24:10.040 He does not. 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:16.639 Have his worst game of the year in the playoffs, 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:20.680 because all four times previously he's been in the playoffs, 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:24.639 that's happened his worst individual game and the fewest points 0:24:24.680 --> 0:24:26.600 they scored in any game all year came in the 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:30.840 playoff game. So this weekend, if they play a classic 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:35.040 against Buffalo and Lamar's an A minus but Josh is 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:37.960 an A plus and the Bills win, I give you 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:41.240 all my word. I will not be coming on and 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:44.680 being like see told you so, Lamar can't get it done. 0:24:44.880 --> 0:24:48.959 That's not what it is. It is not flatly super 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:53.840 Bowl or bust. I just need him to play at 0:24:54.200 --> 0:24:58.440 regular season ish Lamar level for a whole playoff run, 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.679 and if they lose, they lose. And this, listen, this 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:05.200 game was a huge step in the right direction. And 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:08.520 so I know people don't like my Lamar opinion. I 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:10.600 don't think Demonte likes my Lamar opinion. 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:17.680 But that's where that's where I stand on it. 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:23.439 And the reason I'm gonna keep hammering the Peyton Manning 0:25:23.560 --> 0:25:27.240 drum is it's to illustrate. 0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:30.760 That you can be even if. 0:25:30.560 --> 0:25:35.159 He doesn't get over this, he'll still likely become a 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.520 champion one day and be one of the greatest players ever. 0:25:39.920 --> 0:25:46.440 But maybe listen, last point I'll make on this. If 0:25:46.480 --> 0:25:52.360 he is over it and he is excellent this postseason 0:25:56.560 --> 0:26:00.880 and then there's no more yeah butts about him, then 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:09.600 you do start discussing him alongside Manning and Rogers and. 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:12.920 Farv and Elway. 0:26:13.960 --> 0:26:20.119 As the greatest quarterbacks we've ever seen, other than the 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:22.120 two greatest quarterbacks we've ever seen. 0:26:23.840 --> 0:26:25.520 Like that's he had Manning. 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:28.840 But Manning you're saying, had like questions in his career. 0:26:28.920 --> 0:26:33.240 You know, he always had those stills. 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:38.679 And quarterback ever and man Peyton's the fourth greatest quarterback ever. No, 0:26:38.760 --> 0:26:39.919 what I to me? 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:46.040 I so Peyton, So I understand what you're saying, which 0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:48.119 is you're saying, even if he overcomes it, why is 0:26:48.160 --> 0:26:51.680 he then just alongside Peyton? I get the question. It's 0:26:51.760 --> 0:26:58.399 just because Peyton's had a twenty year career, won five MVPs, 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:00.960 not you know, not two or three, was First Pro, 0:27:01.200 --> 0:27:06.080 First Team All Pro seven times, went to four Super Bowls, 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:11.600 you know one like there's the So take Manning out 0:27:11.600 --> 0:27:14.200 of it for the because I get it's a little confusing. 0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:17.960 My point is if Lamar goes on a great playoff 0:27:18.040 --> 0:27:23.080 run and they win the championship, then Lamar versus Aaron 0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:28.200 Rodgers instantly becomes a real debate. If Lamar does nothing 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.720 else the rest of his career, Lamar versus Brett fav 0:27:32.600 --> 0:27:36.480 those got like that instant that becomes not a projection debate, 0:27:36.840 --> 0:27:44.240 an instant right now debate. So but even if he doesn't, 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:49.320 he has done so much great stuff in the regular season, 0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:52.960 I think that he's gonna And maybe this is the team. 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:56.760 By the way, the other thing there is maybe Lamar 0:27:57.240 --> 0:28:02.280 maybe now Demons because they have Derrek Kenny. The Ravens 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:07.000 finally have a team that even if Lamar has his 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:11.080 worst game of the year, they win anyway like that, 0:28:11.200 --> 0:28:14.240