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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. He is no longer with

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Speaker 1: the box. Welcome to another edition of the Around the

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Speaker 1: NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis and joined today

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Speaker 1: Studio Build with some heroes, Greg rosehal Mark Sessler. Listen

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Speaker 1: to freak out. I don't wanna, you know, sound smug

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Speaker 1: or sanctimonious or overly self satisfied. But when uh, people say, uh,

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Speaker 1: the NFL is king, look, it kind of is. When

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Speaker 1: weekends like this go down where it's just takes over

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Speaker 1: the culture and divisional round playoff football played at the

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Speaker 1: peak level of drama. It doesn't get any better. And

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Speaker 1: we talked about it. The wild card round was a

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Speaker 1: little bit of you know, dud. This one, Greg was

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Speaker 1: as good as any I can remember. I think it

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Speaker 1: was the best ever pound for pound. Yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: feel personally responsible for making happen. That's one thing, like

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Speaker 1: what with us working for the We we did it.

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Speaker 1: We put this together. We put the Bills Chiefs last. Right.

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Speaker 1: You almost thought, I thought at the beginning of that game,

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Speaker 1: it's like this weekend has been so good that almost inevitably,

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Speaker 1: as like insane of an ending, as the two NFC

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Speaker 1: games were, but then you were so happy that it

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Speaker 1: was last. I watched the end of the game almost

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Speaker 1: with my kids, and watching them go nuts, Uh, just

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Speaker 1: got me thinking about what you're saying about NFL being

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Speaker 1: king because they they're not Bills or Chiefs fans, and

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Speaker 1: Like they're gonna be paying that cash to the NFL

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Speaker 1: for the rest of their lives. Got them in that

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Speaker 1: particular game we'll talk about for fifty years. The contrast

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Speaker 1: for me was my family left for a little bit.

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs Bills colossal event. I went back into the

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Speaker 1: there was this that that station had switched to a

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Speaker 1: like low level college basketball game. In the contrast between

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Speaker 1: what we have experienced and that sporting event, it was

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Speaker 1: so incredibly low level and depressing. The NFL is has

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Speaker 1: no competition and oranges like and just saying that. Anybody

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Speaker 1: imagine the human being that switched to watch that instead.

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Speaker 1: And I was say that, you know, I love sports.

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Speaker 1: I love you know, basketball, baseball, football, There's always been

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Speaker 1: like in the playoffs. I can get into that, but

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Speaker 1: Some of the teams that you see meltdown, and there

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Speaker 1: where Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen come in. So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get into all the games, but we have to start.

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Speaker 1: I think I was thinking about this driving in that

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Speaker 1: don't have again, like maybe a Patriot fan feels differently

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Speaker 1: about some of those Super Bowls, and there have been

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Speaker 1: to it. Ricky, Let's fly thirty six thirty six time overtime,

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Speaker 1: everything it should have been over, and yet it wasn't.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs to have a penalty. There are almost no penalties.

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Speaker 1: There were almost no set There was like four sacks,

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Speaker 1: there was no turnovers the few stops that they had.

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Speaker 1: And I guess, and I know we should move on,

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Speaker 1: but you know McDermott did pass up that fourth down,

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Speaker 1: that fourth and one, like there were a couple of

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Speaker 1: moments where like that I know, but that that drive,

435
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Speaker 1: that drive where basically Alan, you know, handed it off

436
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Speaker 1: two straight times and then they punted and the drives

437
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Speaker 1: were just so few in this game, you know, they

438
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Speaker 1: just were holding the ball that that maybe, like I

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00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 1: think they just had to be aggressive the whole time.

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Speaker 1: If you're the bum they got a little bit, they

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Speaker 1: got a little safe for a stretch in the second

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Speaker 1: half there, and I mean it was like Romo was

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Speaker 1: harping on that. I think it was legit. I if

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Speaker 1: I'm a Bills fan though that there the landscape is

445
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 1: changing potentially because Brian day Ball, who has been in

446
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,359
Speaker 1: a mind meld with Josh Allen for years and and

447
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Speaker 1: called an incredible game. Obviously today could be gone. Leslie

448
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Speaker 1: Fraser could be gone. I'm not sure who's looking to

449
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Speaker 1: hire him after today's defensive performance. But I mean that

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Speaker 1: that that is uh, this it's been so consistent there,

451
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Speaker 1: you're losing two of your there's a wind, there's there's

452
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Speaker 1: a window, and you have to when that windows open,

453
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Speaker 1: you gotta find a way. But you can't really blame him,

454
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Speaker 1: Like I was saying that the four Big Game, the

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Speaker 1: mount rushmore of crushing losses. Since we're doing this podcast,

456
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Speaker 1: Packers meltdown, Falcons meltdown, Seahawks play call apocalypse this Bills,

457
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Speaker 1: There was no meltdown. It was just a horrendously difficult

458
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,840
Speaker 1: loss where you greatness defeated greatness. But Dan, there was

459
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Speaker 1: also Brown's Jets week three. I thought that that was

460
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Speaker 1: on the mountain. If you want to add a fifth face,

461
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Speaker 1: which that was the one where Sam Donald was outdueled

462
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Speaker 1: by Baker Mayfield. That doesn't that feel small? Gre Gregg

463
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Speaker 1: doesn't seem moved by that suggestion. Um, how about this

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Speaker 1: one last statement game before we move on? Tony roma

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Speaker 1: Statement game a rama. He's heard the criticism. He's not

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Speaker 1: immune to checking Twitter and the mentions. He knows people

467
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Speaker 1: are saying he's not as good as he was a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. He was. That was a masterclass.

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Speaker 1: And I know from some behind the scenes infield that, Um,

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Speaker 1: his son was in the booth for part for the

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Speaker 1: booth for part of the game with him, so maybe

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Speaker 1: that inspired him. But uh, he is like I we

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Speaker 1: have we have feed that you can hear what's happening

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Speaker 1: during the commercial breaks, and it changed what I thought

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Speaker 1: about Tony Romo. The person I really and I really

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Speaker 1: admire me so nice Greg, Greg. That doesn't register with

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Speaker 1: Greg being nice. He was genuinely was being incredible, like

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Speaker 1: the way he got along with Nance. It was genuine

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Speaker 1: he real. Don't you remember when Tony Romo, when my

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Speaker 1: wife was living in Dallas, came to her condo where

481
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Speaker 1: my wife was living with other single women in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: rang the doorbell and asked for band aids. I've never

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Speaker 1: questioned whether he's nice. I mean no, I think that

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Speaker 1: I think the quality of being nice doesn't seem to

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Speaker 1: point was if you're gonna go as far as well

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Speaker 1: I've gotten certain information about what's happening, because I don't say,

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Speaker 1: I don't say. I don't think I'm supposed to give.

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Speaker 1: But if you're giving positive information, no one's gonna mind

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Speaker 1: you're saying Mark, Greg doesn't being nice and stuff is

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Speaker 1: not something that's important. Gad, it's in the media landscape.

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Speaker 1: Greg would be more like, I'm going to cut off

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Speaker 1: your head and then maybe bury your head in the dirt. Please,

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Speaker 1: maybe i'd bury your head and leave your body on

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Speaker 1: top of the ground and freezing weather. I think you're

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Speaker 1: a nice guy, Greg, but not in the way that

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Speaker 1: some other people deemed like a person being nice. You

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Speaker 1: are you have nice qualities though. I've Greg, in fact,

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Speaker 1: gave me a book to read on Friday, which that's

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Speaker 1: an example. It's he does very nice things for people

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Speaker 1: who you want in your corner. You know that. Let's

501
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Speaker 1: see listen, it's there's different levels of it. Um, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's move on. I feel like we could have done

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Speaker 1: the whole podcast. I know, I I kind of want to,

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Speaker 1: but we can't. We need to move on. Let's go

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Speaker 1: through the Devin Singletary contribution. At least we've saved the

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Speaker 1: best for last. To keep people around Honey Badger being

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Speaker 1: out by the way, that was a big part of

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Speaker 1: that game. In the middle of that defense for Casey

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Speaker 1: was hurting there. All right, let's move on that. We

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Speaker 1: gotta move on. A f C. Let's uh, let's let's

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Speaker 1: finish out the a f C. We have the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefs hosting the a f C championship game. This

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Speaker 1: is the first franchise in NFL history to host four

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Speaker 1: consecutive conference championship games. Who are they playing? Well, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about it after this break. McPherson ready from fifty

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Speaker 1: two yards away, car Carouse will snap it back to

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Speaker 1: Kevin Hubert for the win, to snap the puck down

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Speaker 1: the swing the White Lady, it's on its way. Its

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Speaker 1: good knows bam. That is unbelievable. Fifty four gun Nick fearless.

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Speaker 1: Then again Dan Horde and Dave Lap him Lap him

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Speaker 1: being the fan in the booth love at w c K.

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Speaker 1: Why with the call Rookie Evan McPherson kicked a fifty

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Speaker 1: two yard field goals time expired, It lifted the four

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Speaker 1: seed bangles pass the number one seed Titans, Titans fans.

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Speaker 1: That comes so quiet, and the mentions after this game

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Speaker 1: this night, No, you know what are they listening to this?

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Speaker 1: Not a single not a single mention in the mentions

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Speaker 1: about hey, maybe we were wrong. Well you've won, you've won.

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Speaker 1: That that tool with that group of people on Saturday. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Just the Bengals snapped a thirty one year, of course,

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Speaker 1: winless streak in the playoffs. Now they snapped the NFL's

532
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Speaker 1: longest active road playoffs skid. And they do it with

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Speaker 1: the performance that wasn't let's say this, Greg, it wasn't

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Speaker 1: like as electrifying as we've seen Joe Burrow in the

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Speaker 1: Bengals in recent weeks. But this was a tough, hard

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Speaker 1: nosed win where they basically were able to beat the

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Speaker 1: Titans at their own game. They won despite nine sacks

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Speaker 1: and losing both lines of scrimmage. Really, I mean they

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Speaker 1: I think they did a good enough job against the

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Speaker 1: Titans running game. But when they picked off those three

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Speaker 1: Tannehill passes, which which really felt like the difference, it

542
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Speaker 1: wasn't because of pressure. It was because of their coverage. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it was because of Jesse Bates, like just fooling Tannehill's

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Speaker 1: Tannehill forcing to pass at the end, and more importantly

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Speaker 1: on offense, it was Joe Burrow overcoming the pressure. Like

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Speaker 1: they just like thinking about two plays in that game,

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Speaker 1: but but starting with one is that Joe Burrow passed

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Speaker 1: the chase to set up the game winning field goal.

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Speaker 1: That was, you know against like this cover two look

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Speaker 1: that the Titans had been throwing in. They're they're more

551
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Speaker 1: of like a man team, but they've thrown it in

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Speaker 1: pretty effectively throughout the course of the game. And they said,

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Speaker 1: you know, they've seen that, and they they knew it

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Speaker 1: was possibly coming, and Burrow knew in his head what

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Speaker 1: he was gonna do. They adjusted their game plan. Chase

556
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: to me is as so mature as as a route runner.

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00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: They're both seeing the field with the same eyes. They

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Speaker 1: have the perfect calling and they like executed and that

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Speaker 1: was the opposite of of what Tannehill and the Titans

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Speaker 1: offense did in the crucial moments. And sometimes it does

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Speaker 1: to come down the quarterbacks, like the Bengals quarterback is

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Speaker 1: way better. Yeah, and Burrow, you know, credited Zach Taylor

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Speaker 1: for calling that play and said that they had seen

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Speaker 1: the coverage on the tablet on the sidewalk line, Land

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Speaker 1: knew what they knew what the Titans would do there.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Burrow executed, And like we're in a season

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Speaker 1: where a lot of high octane rookie quarterbacks came into

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Speaker 1: the league and look completely beguiled from what from wire

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Speaker 1: to wire, I mean, maybe a couple of good moments

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Speaker 1: second year quarterbacks too. And Burrow to take nine takedowns

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Speaker 1: in this game and to show the composure he did

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Speaker 1: and to simply be completely unflappable. The a f C

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Speaker 1: North has changed for the next fifteen years. The a

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Speaker 1: f C has changed. I throw him right into the

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Speaker 1: pile with Mahomes and Josh Allen, the Bengals who have

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Speaker 1: been well, I'm just I'm just saying he's getting into

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Speaker 1: that mix for me, and I don't need to go whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 1: I honestly we're looking at that kind of player. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we got knocked out the door first. No, I think

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Speaker 1: you're probably right. Just to me, they're just a couple

581
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Speaker 1: of years ahead. That's fine in their development, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: But I mean to me, it was like they took

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Speaker 1: their defense to your door before you walk in there.

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Speaker 1: I kicked the door open. I told you eight weeks

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Speaker 1: ago that the Bengals were going to kick someone's but

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Speaker 1: that I can do whatever I want to do. Mean,

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Speaker 1: you you got on the Bengals bandwagon, then you jumped off.

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Speaker 1: I didn't jump on, and you jump back on. You

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Speaker 1: can't then jump I didn't jump off. I was my

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Speaker 1: take looked bad because they lost a couple. They kind

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Speaker 1: of know that's your take. They they they kind of

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Speaker 1: got they kind of fell into the up and down.

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Speaker 1: Did you take them to beat the Chiefs when they

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Speaker 1: were playing the Chiefs? I don't think so. You know,

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Speaker 1: you two are unbelievably un annoying to hang out with.

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Speaker 1: Most of the time Burrow in this game, though, two

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty two yards after the catch. A lot

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Speaker 1: of it was not downfield throws like you've seen in

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Speaker 1: other games where it was deep shots. It was his

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Speaker 1: receivers making a lot of action happen after they caught

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Speaker 1: short passes. I mean, he had three passes of fifteen

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Speaker 1: plus eight yards and none over twenty the entire game.

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00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: If you're a Titans fan, you're you're so disappointed, obviously

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Speaker 1: because this is now the third time they've been the

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Speaker 1: number one seed and got knocked out. And also, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I was having some fun a few minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: But you know, they were very They had their chests

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Speaker 1: out the fan base. They thought, we're gonna show you

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Speaker 1: what you don't. You don't think we're a true number one,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna show you something. And part of the reason

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Speaker 1: they had confidence to the party. I wish Grave Digger

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Speaker 1: was here because I'd love to hear his thoughts on this.

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Speaker 1: But we'll get it eventually. Um, Ryan Tannehill was a

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Speaker 1: guy to trust. He was a guy to trust in

615
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Speaker 1: these situations. We talked about it on our TV show

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Speaker 1: on Friday. On Saturday, it was like Listen, we all

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Speaker 1: know Joe Burrow is a rising superstar in the league.

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Speaker 1: Tannehill might not have that ceiling, but he is a

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Speaker 1: damn good quarterback. And then he goes out and throws

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Speaker 1: an interception on the first pass of the game. He

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Speaker 1: throws an interception, uh a couple of quarters later after that,

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Speaker 1: and then throws the interception that sets up the game

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Speaker 1: winning field goal. He came up small. There are a

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Speaker 1: few small performances from veteran players. Uh, we're gonna get

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00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: to the Packers in a little bit, um, but Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: it can't There's no other way to go around it.

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00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: He he kind of let him down here. He also

628
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: had a E. J. Brown open on a deep shot

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Speaker 1: that would have been a game changer in this and

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Speaker 1: he missed him on that. He was just off. And

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Speaker 1: I think that the Bengals did a good job. You know,

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Speaker 1: Loui and Aramo who we uh, you know, we've you know,

633
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: we we used to kick his butt around on the

634
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Speaker 1: show a year ago. He's now interviewed for the Giants

635
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: job because I think he put the Titans. How quickly

636
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,360
Speaker 1: things changed? Do change, because the whole Bengals changed. But

637
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 1: on top of it. We were wondering what version of

638
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry do you get? And we just didn't get.

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00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,080
Speaker 1: He ran well, I thought early on, but he just

640
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,040
Speaker 1: wasn't able to take over the game. There was one

641
00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: moment in this game that I thought was awful. It

642
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: was a third and inches play where they had Tannehill

643
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 1: and shotgun and he takes the snap and he winds

644
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: up running the ball. Just why not just QB sneak

645
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: it there? Tannehill is good at that. I mean, like

646
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: they you're you're asking him and that then and then

647
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: on fourth down to give it to Henry and he

648
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: stuffed drive over right. They they weren't helped by Henry returning.

649
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: Now I don't I don't know if donte Foreman helps

650
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,479
Speaker 1: them win the game, but like I don't know that

651
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have I mean, his his his forty five

652
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: year run that he had and he had another. Um,

653
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: we're two of the best runs of the game. I

654
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: mean the forty five years and was the best round

655
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: of the game. And then he had another. I'm failing

656
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: to remember how how long it went for, but he

657
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: ended up four for sixty six. But they were loyal

658
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: to Henry Henry gets stuffed on the two point conversion,

659
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: which which looking back, was such a crucial play. It

660
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 1: was a great play by Clay Johnston. But this was

661
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: an offensive line that was used to leaning on teams

662
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: and leaning on them throughout the course of a game,

663
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: and it just didn't happen for them this game. Tannehill

664
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: actually hit like a lot of big plays. I mean,

665
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: Brown goes five for one forty two. You know, he

666
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: hit him downfield a couple of times. They had the

667
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 1: big plays, but that that interception he had and just

668
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: to put you know, the time on it, you have

669
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: to get to overtime. There it is in saying that

670
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: the Titans had the ball left with twenty eight seconds

671
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: left on a third and five on their own forty

672
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: and they lost in regulation. On that play, he forces

673
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: it into Westbrook Kina. You know, you can do the

674
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 1: thing where you kind of pose it and you see

675
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: that there's actually a tight end coming open in the flat,

676
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: and you lose the game throwing it to Westbrook Kna.

677
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 1: Julio is not on the field. Julio had a nice game.

678
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: That's weird. They don't throw to a j. Brown. But

679
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: the thing that gets me with that play where you

680
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: talk about veterans and where like Joe Burrow was not

681
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 1: making that mistake. There's no pressure. So like he made

682
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: a bad decision with no pressure, throwing it into a

683
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,319
Speaker 1: crowded area to a bad receiver with no pressure. Like

684
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 1: that's that's like a mental thing. That's a short circuiting.

685
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,240
Speaker 1: We gotta talk Kevan McPherson. He converted his eleventh field

686
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 1: goal from fifty yards or longer, the most in a

687
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: season for one player. He also became the first kicker

688
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: in NFL history with at least four or more field

689
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: goals in multiple games in a single post season, He's

690
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: played two both games, he's four for four. Here's what

691
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow had to say about the last kick. So

692
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: he was talking to Brandon as he was going out

693
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: to kick. He'd give a little warm up swing and

694
00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: he said, it looks like we're going to then FC

695
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: championship right before he went out there to kick it.

696
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: And when you have a kicker, I mean, we knew

697
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 1: exactly what we had as soon as he walked into

698
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: the building in camp, and we just saw how he

699
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: carried himself. Oh, let's let's go behind the velvet. Ropes

700
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: for a second here, Evan McPherson. He's moved all the

701
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 1: way up now to number one the kicker power right

702
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Justin Tucker still in his own world,

703
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 1: and I wonder if he changes the way teams start

704
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: looking at the kicker in the draft. Taking in the

705
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 1: fifth round, it's you're not Roberto Aguayo. I think scared

706
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:56,759
Speaker 1: off a lot of teams that second round pick of

707
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,239
Speaker 1: the Bucks. That was a horrific misfire. And you've seen

708
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: it every couple years. Somebody really reaches, but teams that

709
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: have avoided it completely take a look at the draft classes,

710
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: because look how much a great kicker can change a

711
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 1: Teamskowski was a fourth round pick and you had it,

712
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: got a lot of grief at the time. There he's

713
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: in the back right now, pop and getting rid of

714
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: minitary And I always thought like people like you can't

715
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: believe you a wasted draft pick out a kicker, Like

716
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: what your fourth and fifth round picks are changing your franchise?

717
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: Ever ms They always think the safety they take in

718
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: the sixth round is actually a big time if you

719
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: believe in them. And you're right obviously with McPherson, but

720
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: if you believe in them, even in you're only halfway right, Like,

721
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:43,960
Speaker 1: that's a perfectly acceptable There's twenty five scenarios a season

722
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: where a better kicker is gonna give you a chance

723
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: to win. We look at Justin Tucker Tucker for the

724
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: Ravens obviously, but you've added Burrow and McPherson over the

725
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: course of two seasons. It completely changes the Bengals. How

726
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 1: many there Burrow and McPherson. No, but you know what,

727
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: but honest like, how how many teams with good quarterbacks

728
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: are riding shaky streets because the kicker you can't trust

729
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: me your third and fourth Kickerycember, big Bone, Randy on

730
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: their roster, which I think they did at some point. Uh,

731
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: they're not playing for the a f C Championship on Sunday.

732
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: It's simple as that. I mean, he's that important. Did

733
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: you guys see the clip that was circulating today that

734
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: was on TikTok, but it made it to Twitter too.

735
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 1: There's a video of McPherson kicking it and there's a

736
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 1: gatorade bottle to the pylon and he kicks the ball

737
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: like a field goal range and the ball hits the

738
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: cap and unscrews the Gatorade cap and it's like crazy,

739
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's got swag coming out of their ears between Nick fearless,

740
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: Chase Stewing, the gritty and Burrow like, who's just like

741
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: on another level with the way dresses and the way

742
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: he plays and people weren't driving last night in Cincinnati

743
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,240
Speaker 1: was like my senses that sound like stew and Bible alcohol.

744
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: It's crazy though, because like you watch this game, did

745
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: you guys get the feeling that like the Bengals were better?

746
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: You know? I mean it was just even it was

747
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: a field goal game, they eight were dominated. Their offensive

748
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: line was dominated in such a manner in a winning

749
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 1: performance unlike anything I've ever seen. I mean, Burrow has

750
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: to take some of those sacks as his own responsibility.

751
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: A couple of times he was protected and he held

752
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 1: the ball too long and he's trying to make a play.

753
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,399
Speaker 1: I would say at least three of those times once

754
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: knocked him out of field goal range. It wasn't it

755
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: wasn't a perfect game from Burrow. In fact, before that

756
00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: field goal, uh, they had gone three and out interception

757
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: punt punt uh in the drives before that field goal.

758
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,919
Speaker 1: But the reason is because all day he was in third,

759
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: third and eighteen. They they had they faced at one point,

760
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: third and fourteen, third and sixteen, third and eighteen. Like

761
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: their offensive line was absolutely manhandled. Jeffrey Simmons had as

762
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 1: good a performance as anyone not named Aaron Donald has

763
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: had a defensive tackle. Like they still won the game.

764
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's part of me that feels very

765
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: like like that was problem, that was a problem them

766
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: that I'm worried about that, but that is and the

767
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,919
Speaker 1: Packers were the same way the Titans. They I thought

768
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: they were a little bit tight in this game. I thought,

769
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, you saw the defense defense borrow to nineteen

770
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: points exactly. But just that idea of like being at home,

771
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: having the opportunity to take care of business and just

772
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,959
Speaker 1: not quite being there, not executing the way you were

773
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: when there was less pressure on you at the end

774
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: of the season, when you had that winning streak. I

775
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 1: don't know, it's just it's very frustrating, I imagine for

776
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: t for the Bengals, like you know, we'll look forward

777
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,439
Speaker 1: all week, but it's two weeks in a row where

778
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: you can look at a series of drives and it's

779
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: the protections. First of all, like coaching staff, maybe can

780
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: we figure out how to stop some of the bleeding

781
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: with the Joe Burrow punishment midway through this game? There

782
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: was no answer for that. But Raiders game this game,

783
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: they're not finishing certain drives. That's not gonna work against

784
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Well. I also think their weaknesses have matched

785
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: up really poorly. Their interior line is where they're just terrible.

786
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, you have owns and Jaren Reid coming. But

787
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 1: but the thing Burrow did that like Tannehill didn't at all,

788
00:40:04,920 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 1: and no one on the Titans offense did, was like

789
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: he made plays that weren't there. There's a play I

790
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: can think of where they knew he was gonna roll out,

791
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: like they didn't bite on the play fake. He has

792
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: a defender right in his face and they have two

793
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,919
Speaker 1: defenders on Jamar Chase. I think it was a third down,

794
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't. That play is defended perfectly, like the

795
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: coach had the exact play in everyone's in place. It's

796
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 1: three on two. Burrow makes the miss and then he

797
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: gets into Chase, who makes two guys miss and they

798
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: pick up a first down. And that's kind of just

799
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: like our players are better than your players. I don't

800
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 1: care about he is. He is mentally tough and makes

801
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: me think of Ricky Hollywood. There's a parallel with the

802
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: way that two of them operate in their in professions.

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00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: Here's the good news, by the way, how he kind

804
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: of got into this game? You said, Joe Burrows there

805
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes are right there. We

806
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: get to find out that's gonna be a made because

807
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: Josh Allen did literally everything he a do and it

808
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: still wasn't enough to knock off the Chiefs. Joe Burrow

809
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,040
Speaker 1: is gonna have to deliver on a similar scale, and

810
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: he did. He did. He did it in Arrowhead, which

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00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if that helps it hurts either team

812
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: in in particular, but they know they can come from behind.

813
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:17,160
Speaker 1: But the Deserts not buying it. I mean the Chiefs.

814
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:21,839
Speaker 1: The Chiefs went into this game barely favored over the Bills. Uh,

815
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,879
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are favored by a touchdown next week. Well,

816
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: I mean, the Desert has adored Kansas City all season,

817
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: so I I'm not overly concerned with that. All right, Uh,

818
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: let us before we move on to the NFC side

819
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: of action. We do have the Bill Cower comments on

820
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Would you like to hear them? Please? Why not? Okay,

821
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: go ahead, Ricky, you love don't you love the four Niners?

822
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what. I love the opportunity and

823
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: watched Tom Brady and what he's done, if he does,

824
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: has stepped down. We've been blessed to watch from the

825
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: greatest of all time, the ambassador of the football game

826
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: on National Football League. This guy represents everything that's right

827
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: about it. I knew I didn't. I love you, bro,

828
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: That's not gonna work with day and I can tell

829
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: you that much. Well. The funny thing, too, is James

830
00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: Crowd asked him about the forty diners. All right, Well,

831
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: you know he answered the question you wanted to answer

832
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 1: his own way. Before we move on, you guys were

833
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: all with lakisha Um. I didn't make it over, But

834
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: how cool was that when they hit that kick? I mean,

835
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: I think someone of you vid like she was on

836
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:32,919
Speaker 1: top of the world and that must have been so nice.

837
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: It was really nice. I'll be together at all these days,

838
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: but watching a football game like we did it outdoors?

839
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: Link is there. He slept through the first half came

840
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: out for the second half. Walker was there, you know,

841
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:48,879
Speaker 1: Connie and Gonza were all there. It was beautiful, and

842
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, like we're along for this, right She's

843
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,759
Speaker 1: already thinking like what if there's a Bengals ram Super Bowl,

844
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: who do I root for? We'll be confusing. And it's

845
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: so funny because like I was driving home after the

846
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: game from Lakisha's and it was like, imagine, like having

847
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: this conversation, where would West be at right now? Bengal

848
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,479
Speaker 1: situation Now, it's kind of it's taken on a life

849
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: of its own on on Twitter and amongst like the listeners,

850
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,319
Speaker 1: and there's a general vibe like Bengals of the team

851
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: of a t L, this is for West and all

852
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: this stuff. We don't know like where West would actually

853
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: come down in Cincinnati at this point in time, but

854
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: there is still like this like kind of spiritual bond

855
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: and it just connects. It's just it's been very nice

856
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,239
Speaker 1: and his brothers, I mean, we like we've been texting

857
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: with now. I mean, West is was the most stubborn

858
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,840
Speaker 1: friend I've ever had, So I am not just assuming

859
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: that he would have flowered open and become this giant

860
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: Bengals fan this season, Yet there are elements of the

861
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: Bengals that West would have loved about. What does he

862
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: do when that when that field goal goes through the

863
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: uprights fifty two yards? I think I think it would

864
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: have melted his heart by then, would have melted to

865
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 1: some degree on the Bengals front. But would Link be

866
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: in a Bengals shirt? No way, no way. I don't know.

867
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: I don't know. We were talking about this in in

868
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: the moments after two. Yeah, I I kind of don't

869
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,080
Speaker 1: think he would fully embrace it all. But you know, Wes,

870
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: like there were times where he'd say one thing and

871
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: I think he would still like be appreciate. First of all,

872
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,759
Speaker 1: he'd appreciate the borough of of it all. He'd appreciate

873
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: that his brothers are having some fun. And even if

874
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,840
Speaker 1: he wouldn't want to like admit it, I think he

875
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: would just enjoy that it's like interesting, like, oh, this

876
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: is a fun new life experience I'm having um and

877
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: and it makes it bitter sweet to say the least.

878
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 1: Definitely bitter, but it was it was beautiful to be

879
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: out there like friends like I. That was one thing

880
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: I was thinking, was like he'd he'd appreciate that we

881
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: are all getting together and that we're all together as

882
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: a family with his family, right, and he'd appreciate how

883
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: much it means to Lukisha because it does for her,

884
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: it ties to him, and that is Lukisha's mom sitting

885
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, in the back with a notebook full of notes.

886
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 1: She walked up to me, like what happened on that

887
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: last trial? She's charting every day and I showed her

888
00:45:00,719 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: like NFL Jesus, like, if you'd like this can help

889
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 1: you too. But I love that you're by hand. From

890
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,919
Speaker 1: the first snap she was she had her notebook out,

891
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:14,879
Speaker 1: she's taking notes. Uh. She she is the best. I'd

892
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: love to We've kind of had her on the podcast.

893
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,200
Speaker 1: But at one point I kinda I kind of rolled

894
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: up next to and I saw her notebook and I said,

895
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: what you got in there? She's like nothing, Yes, she's

896
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,399
Speaker 1: not afraid to kind of just go quiet. But then

897
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: as we were leaving, she gathered us all together and

898
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: said some really nice words about how important it was

899
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: to be together and how much it means with West

900
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: and everything is just like all right, that's a special woman.

901
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: All right. I'm so pissed at duty. We were supposed

902
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 1: to be there for a little bit. We did have

903
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: a prior engagement, but we go there first. The Bengals

904
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: were't supposed to get this far. I mean, what do

905
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: you mean that I've had a I've had a brunch

906
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 1: plan for a long time for someone's birthday during a

907
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: playoff game. He's still technically in her twenties, so brunches

908
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 1: matter on level. That weekend, it was someone's birthday and

909
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: I had said yes, but Jet was supposed to be

910
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 1: done school and we were going to go to Keisha's first,

911
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,959
Speaker 1: and then you know, she just took way too long

912
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: and we're doing the pod right now, right, but I'm

913
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,000
Speaker 1: mad that I'm not there, and she she was like,

914
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: I know how much this meant to you, And I

915
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: was like, clearly, you really hustled zero. We have all right,

916
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,799
Speaker 1: let's welcome in Jet to share her thoughts on how

917
00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: this played out. Erica was handling at six in the morning.

918
00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: I do like that bar quite like during a playoff game.

919
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: He's well, no, but it's like, I'm sorry, but this

920
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:32,760
Speaker 1: is our core. I mean, I know you were probably

921
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 1: tracking it heavily on your phone. Yeah, we do. We're

922
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: hearing from the Wesleyan brothers, Nick saying that Tim sounded

923
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: like he was having a fake orgasm at one point,

924
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 1: which I thought was, uh an interesting response. And I

925
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: just want to give Dan credit. U sixteen to six Titans,

926
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,360
Speaker 1: not to go back to the game, but one sixteen

927
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: to six Titans, they just I think, for a minute,

928
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: just hit that play. They're in shotgun, and as they're

929
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: getting ready for this, that did goes don't throw it,

930
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,359
Speaker 1: don't throw it, do not throw this ball. In three

931
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: seconds later, Tannehill threw that interception where on the stage.

932
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 1: So there was another moment where Dan was a great job.

933
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: Dan raised incredible alarm um at this garden party because

934
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow got hit and it looked like for a

935
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: minute he was slightly uncomfortable in the the area, and

936
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 1: Dan sounded like he had been taken out in the

937
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: stomach by a bow and arrow, but instead, uh, you know, listen,

938
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is one of the most exciting aspects of

939
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,280
Speaker 1: this NFL season. He's coming off a catastrophic knee injury.

940
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: And he got hit low and then grabbed his leg

941
00:47:33,680 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: and I went, I'll move my micare I'm like and

942
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: then Greg was legitimately upset. He was like, hey, calm

943
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: down about that easy, and then Tanna's nothing wrong with this.

944
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 1: Tannehill did actually look like he was hurt. A little

945
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: bit later, I was like, Dan, please, you know fill it.

946
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: I haven't say that, but I was just trying to

947
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: coach you up a little bit. Cop doubt. You're around

948
00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: a bunch of people like Joe Burrow's mom there, we're there.

949
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: Who am I not? Who? I'm just saying, if you're

950
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: gonna yell out like that, be a little more sure

951
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: that something bad happened. Social dynamics class. You don't need

952
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 1: to alarm the masses that Burrow blew out of. Greg

953
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,800
Speaker 1: also dropped an F bomb in front of his child

954
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: Walker at one point, which I noticed, So, you know,

955
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:22,359
Speaker 1: everyone paying attention. So he turned and looked at you,

956
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: and I saw in his eyes he had never heard

957
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: that come out of your mouth. Dan did a great

958
00:48:26,239 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: job playing quarterback into it, and I appreciate it. Yes,

959
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 1: we had a great time. Dan was the dad I

960
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: I could ever be. I I was really in the

961
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:39,240
Speaker 1: doghouse with Greg about referencing Joe Burrows and the injury,

962
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: but then I played with Walker it was like back

963
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: in do we need to take a break. Let's take

964
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: a break and then hit the NFC. Lets go fund

965
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: Jet's body, you wish. Matt Gay with four seconds on

966
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: the clock, well attempt a thirty yard field goal with

967
00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: the right foot kick on. It's one. It is through.

968
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: It is good. That game brings it home. There is

969
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: j B. Long. He deserves it. He's got a lot

970
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: of pop on the show. With the call KSPN, Matt

971
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: Gay thirty yards out the difference and at win for

972
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: the Rams over the Bucks. Moves the Rams back to

973
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: the NFC title game, a game that the Rams led

974
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:40,479
Speaker 1: three at the half and to three in the third

975
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: quarter before a series of self inflicted errors opened the

976
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: door for what could have been one of the great

977
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: collapses in NFL playoff history. Cam Akers played a major

978
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: role with two lost fumbles in that, but that was

979
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 1: just two of many errors the Rams made. Matt Gay

980
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: himself fell short on a forty seven yard field goal

981
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: attempt in perfect conditions. There was a wayward snap, all

982
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: sorts of things going on. But when it came down

983
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: to it, mark when the walls are falling in and

984
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: it goes from seven to three to seven to seven.

985
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: Late in the fourth quarter, matt Stafford dropped back and

986
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,440
Speaker 1: made the past to Cooper Cup. That's set up the

987
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:27,440
Speaker 1: field goal. Cooper Cup, who I just consider to be

988
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: the m v P. I don't really care who they

989
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: name m v P at this point, because he saved

990
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: the Rams season. He had the early touchdown that Matthew

991
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 1: Stafford later called, uh, you know, his route essentially a

992
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: love of the game route where he's a decoy trying

993
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: to pull defensive backs away, but he was left open.

994
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: Scored that one, scored the game winner. This is exactly

995
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: why you went and got Matthew Stafford. I thought Stafford

996
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: had to answer that question over and over this season.

997
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 1: He did it today in spectacular fashion. And you know,

998
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,919
Speaker 1: it's the Rams overcoming past demons and current demons because

999
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,479
Speaker 1: you're dealing with Tom bray d who you know, with

1000
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,480
Speaker 1: With ten fifteen minutes to go in this game, it

1001
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: looked like this thing was this was the stinker of

1002
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:10,240
Speaker 1: the four four beautiful efforts, and instead Tom Brady nearly

1003
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: took them to the brink. I mean, it was incredibly watchable.

1004
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 1: I thought the Rams defense made life very tough for

1005
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and early on in the game. It just

1006
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: looked to me like the Bucks had hit a wall,

1007
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,840
Speaker 1: that there were too many people not on the field

1008
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 1: for them. Tristan Worth's absence affected tom Brady a ton

1009
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: You're obviously your wide receivers are out. You know, they

1010
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: were missing guys. Tom Brady was out of sync and

1011
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 1: he really had no one to throw to, and even

1012
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: with Gronk, he seemed out of place with Gronk until

1013
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: later in the game. It was nearly a gem for

1014
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:38,879
Speaker 1: tom Brady. I wonder if it's the end of tom

1015
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: Brady's career that hangs in the atmosphere at this point

1016
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: for us to find out. But for the Rams two

1017
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: weeks in a row, there are parts of them that

1018
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: looks totally confirmed as a Super Bowl team. They put

1019
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:53,319
Speaker 1: they faced next um, but an incredible effort on the road. Well,

1020
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if I guess, if you mean, if you've

1021
00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,799
Speaker 1: been living in a cave, that's news. This it's such

1022
00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:01,879
Speaker 1: a misleading final score and box score to me. And yes,

1023
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: the Rams losing four fumbles is part of the story

1024
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: and we we should talk about that. But if you

1025
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: wish to the defense, like the Rams defense, it's not this.

1026
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: This comeback, and it was it was a good comeback,

1027
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: but it was all like it was a lot of

1028
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: like I can't believe Brady did it again. They they

1029
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: were stopped three times in a row in the fourth quarter.

1030
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 1: In any other situation, that's the ball game. The Rams

1031
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: defense stopped two different times like forced punts, uh, and

1032
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: also forced to fumble there in the fourth quarter to

1033
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: take it under five minutes. And yet this still happened.

1034
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:40,479
Speaker 1: But Cup is the story to me, Like those two

1035
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: plays to set up the field goal, it almost feels like, now,

1036
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: after what what the Chiefs did? Oh forty two seconds,

1037
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 1: that's nothing. But they didn't. They didn't have time outs there,

1038
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: which is like such a big difference. Mcveigh's pension for

1039
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: burning totally unnecessary timeouts should have come back to haunt him,

1040
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:03,200
Speaker 1: but it didn't. Those two plays in a row in Cup,

1041
00:53:03,239 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: going nine for three and one is just like it.

1042
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: Maybe it's at the end of the one of the

1043
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,000
Speaker 1: best receiving seasons of all time, but it's the most

1044
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: memorable thing yet. The first play he puts Murphy Bunting

1045
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,439
Speaker 1: on the ground. He he shakes them so bad that

1046
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: that man went on the ground and in a in

1047
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: a very safe defense where they're playing to prevent him

1048
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: from going to the sidelines. He gets deep and it

1049
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: was second and eleven. I'm I'm talking about the last two.

1050
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: The last two plays thirty five seconds left, after Stafford

1051
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: almost fumbled the ball, they're they're playing safe and they

1052
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: didn't send anyone and they didn't get any pressure on

1053
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: Stafford and Cup gets out of bounds after shaking that dude,

1054
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 1: And I think Todd Bowl saw that and was like,

1055
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to go down like like a b basically,

1056
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: and he decides to send the house on the next

1057
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: one because going safe didn't work. They hadn't been getting

1058
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: pressure all day, so he decides to send everyone. But

1059
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: here's where McVeigh makes it up to me personally. They

1060
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: played at so fast the NBC actually wasn't even ready

1061
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: for the next snap. They were still in Cup's replay.

1062
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: I went back to look, they snapped the ball with

1063
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: twenty one seconds left, and because they played with such

1064
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: tempo and that was the plan coming in even though

1065
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: the clock was stopped, there was miscommunication by the Bucks.

1066
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: The blitz call did not get passed around to everyone,

1067
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: so it was a total mistake. In terms of coverage

1068
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: and what their responsibilities were, and Cup goads deep and oh,

1069
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:29,239
Speaker 1: by the way, you gotta make the play and Stafford

1070
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 1: like delivers beautiful and you have to get down and

1071
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: clock the ball like that's that's that's beating, Like forget

1072
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:41,680
Speaker 1: about coaching, it's that's just playing excellent. And the going

1073
00:54:41,680 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: back to that quot because I found that to be

1074
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: an intriguing quote and I didn't know what it meant

1075
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: at first when Stafford called it a for the love

1076
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 1: of the game route, because of when the defense is

1077
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,839
Speaker 1: sending the house like that, the guy that just goes

1078
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: straight out to pull away some defenders, he's there's not

1079
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:59,040
Speaker 1: enough time to make him a part of the play

1080
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: unless some of the defenders that are supposed to be

1081
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: blitzing don't get the play call in and they didn't

1082
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: have the full complement of blitzers coming at Stafford. Now

1083
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 1: I think it was Sue has still got to him,

1084
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:14,240
Speaker 1: and Stafford made the play, and you gotta give it credit.

1085
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,360
Speaker 1: And a great throw under pressure. Even then, most quarterbacks

1086
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: are not making that play. Now here's the question. Now,

1087
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: Mark with the Rams not to spin out of this game.

1088
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: But I'm just like, I'm still trying to process the

1089
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: rams with this game. As we now look ahead, they

1090
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,720
Speaker 1: have a one more game to get to the super Bowl,

1091
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: and you can't say if they closed this game out.

1092
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: They had a quarterback and a wide receiver whom made

1093
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: a very special play to save the day. But even

1094
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:41,400
Speaker 1: Cup had a bad fumble in this game lost to

1095
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: change things. There's something about this team lacking a killer instinct.

1096
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:47,359
Speaker 1: It's what got them beating week A team from by

1097
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,040
Speaker 1: San Francisco, and it almost costs him in a game

1098
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: that would have been remembered forever, and that that spooks

1099
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: me a little bit as we spin forward. I'm with you,

1100
00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: but they also have guys like von Miller, who had

1101
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,400
Speaker 1: an absolutely incredible formans today. Oh b J completely fits.

1102
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I love watching that personally, but they

1103
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:09,200
Speaker 1: like these moves they've made have worked, and I the

1104
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,240
Speaker 1: mistakes they somehow overcame it today. I mean, you're also

1105
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:14,840
Speaker 1: playing the dark magic of Tom Brady and it's like

1106
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:16,279
Speaker 1: to get out of there with the way they did.

1107
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not that concerned with that. I'm I'm

1108
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: probably more concerned with the matchup for San Francisco. But

1109
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: this team is like well built, well put together to

1110
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: get this far and overcome their own mistakes. To me,

1111
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm kind of sold on them though, Dan,

1112
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 1: like I do think it comes from above, that there

1113
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: is something that they get. They tried to sit on

1114
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: this lead, and that's it's so dangerous because like when

1115
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,839
Speaker 1: you asked Stafford and come to make a couple of plays. Look,

1116
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,919
Speaker 1: they made it, but they didn't ask them to make

1117
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: those plays for a couple of quarters. There was like

1118
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:51,239
Speaker 1: the field goal kick that you mentioned that they were

1119
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: short on. They just ran the ball three straight times,

1120
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: including on third and long. It was like McVeigh was

1121
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: just he he has this He the real issues with

1122
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: nickveigh well just to every show, it's just this. He

1123
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: has this conservative streak that when you like is leading,

1124
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: he he wants to get so conservative. And the running

1125
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: game wasn't working today, Acres. So I just in a

1126
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: game that you're the worst games ever. Acres averages two

1127
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 1: yards of rush and twenty four carris and has two

1128
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,840
Speaker 1: backbreaking fumbles. He fumbled more in this game than Michelle

1129
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 1: has in the last two years. I was I was

1130
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: thinking at the end, you gotta have a Sonny Michelle

1131
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: in there like a trust too much. He's gotta have

1132
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: like four four yards. That said, they started out very aggressive,

1133
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: like they weren't running at all. I liked what they did,

1134
00:57:35,800 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: like throwing early, but it's crazy to dominate a game

1135
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: like that for fifty five minutes and haven't be that

1136
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: close at the end. I don't buy Tom Brady retiring.

1137
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:47,600
Speaker 1: I think this might be the beginning of a lot

1138
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: of these guys, these legendary players, um even guys that

1139
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: just around forever, like we just saw a big bend.

1140
00:57:53,680 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 1: There's the period where they're playing for a long time,

1141
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 1: and then there's the period where it's like every year

1142
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: is like is he coming back? Will or won'ty? And

1143
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: then he comes back like a couple of years, and

1144
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:05,120
Speaker 1: then there's the last year. I think with Brady, the

1145
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:08,000
Speaker 1: way he is everything tells me as a competitor, he

1146
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: wants to draw this thing out, so I'll believe it

1147
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: when I see it. I was thinking about it because

1148
00:58:12,560 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: I guess, but that's what I'm saying. It's all part

1149
00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: of the process, I think. And I thought he looked

1150
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he looked old in this game, but

1151
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 1: he was. He was so uncomfortable. This was a tough,

1152
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: tough game for Brady. You got to throw the ball

1153
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,920
Speaker 1: fifty four times. He was constantly under durest he was

1154
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: having to move around in the pocket. I thought to

1155
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: get to three nine yards to get that comeback really

1156
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 1: was gargangean effort by him, because the Rams defensive line

1157
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 1: really came after him all game. Well they I mean

1158
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: they were a mess on third down two for a long,

1159
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: big chunk of this. I just I who were his

1160
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: options to throw to. I mean, Tyler Johnson seems to

1161
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: be so out of sync with Brady and everyone of

1162
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 1: these playoff game. He's not used to his line getting

1163
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 1: worked that That's why, I mean, like the box scores misleading.

1164
00:58:57,400 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: He he looked done with this game, by the way,

1165
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: when he overthrew break um to turn the ball back

1166
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: over with about four something left, and it was it

1167
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: just looked like, I was like, let's do let's get

1168
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: out of here now. The Rams overcome losing four fumbles

1169
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 1: in a half, or you know, they had one right

1170
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: before the half when they could have gone up three

1171
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: and acres fumbles on the goal line going into halftime.

1172
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: The Arians doesn't take time outs there, which felt like

1173
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: the biggest like give up move ever. It was just

1174
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: like I don't even want to try to score at

1175
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 1: the end of the half. It wasn't taking time outs

1176
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: when the Rams had the ball, but before that, like,

1177
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 1: I don't know who, if any quarterback could have done

1178
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: much there because the Rams defensive line was destroying them.

1179
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 1: ESPN ran a stat that said they had the highest

1180
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: pass rush win rate of any team in any half

1181
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: in a game this year in the first half of

1182
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,960
Speaker 1: that game. This was the ultimate proof that like sacks

1183
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,520
Speaker 1: and QB hits are are a quarterbacks that because Brady

1184
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 1: managed to make it only three sacks in four or

1185
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: five quarterback hits. But it wasn't just worse. This guy

1186
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,800
Speaker 1: that was and beat like a drum like Donovan Smith

1187
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: was getting destroyed. The guys in the middle, We're getting

1188
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: destroyed all those Rams defensive lineman. I think it's a

1189
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: special group, but I think it's potentially like a special

1190
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: Super Bowl championship. And Miller's nine QB pressures were the

1191
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: third most he's had in the next gen. Right now,

1192
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:23,600
Speaker 1: he's playing Floyd there and Donald. Yeah, I think Brady

1193
01:00:23,680 --> 01:00:27,160
Speaker 1: for the first having they showed at some point coming

1194
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,680
Speaker 1: back from a commercial break, him and Gronks celebrating after

1195
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last year on the field, and it

1196
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: struck me that his jersey and they played on grass,

1197
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 1: it was that Tampa was completely white, gleaming white, like

1198
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: it didn't have it. He didn't have a mark on him.

1199
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: And in this game he took a beating. He was bleeding.

1200
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: There was a shot as he was walking off the

1201
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: field with a son in his face and he kind

1202
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:50,959
Speaker 1: of actually looked forty four years old for the first

1203
01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: time ever, and I was like, man, this is this

1204
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: was hard work. So maybe if you want to buy

1205
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: into the ideas Tom thinking about coming back or leaving,

1206
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,240
Speaker 1: this was kind of probably a very tough game for

1207
01:01:01,320 --> 01:01:03,720
Speaker 1: him to head into the off season on. I wonder

1208
01:01:03,760 --> 01:01:07,439
Speaker 1: if if the comeback, because you know, he does throw

1209
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 1: that past to Evans, just a beautiful throw. When he

1210
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 1: made that through, I was like, that would be a

1211
01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: great last throw in the NFL. Burke texted me that's

1212
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,520
Speaker 1: so true. But then he gets the ball back, they go,

1213
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: you know, they score again. I almost wonder if like

1214
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:23,880
Speaker 1: this the way this game ended, I don't know, maybe

1215
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: it's a good way to go out at him. Just

1216
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: that like it wasn't embarrassed. The super Bowl would have

1217
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 1: been a good way, but no one's going to remember

1218
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: this is I guess what I mean is like it

1219
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:40,240
Speaker 1: was a reminder of ball things, how completely, how completely

1220
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,720
Speaker 1: difficult it is to play and try to win the

1221
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 1: super Bowl like this. He knows how poorly the Bucks

1222
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: offense played and how badly they were beaten for fifty

1223
01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: five minutes. Then you have like the way it finished

1224
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: and at least like you didn't go out in some embarrassing,

1225
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: chump like way. When I saw these reports, I was like, Oh,

1226
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of gone like I was, because

1227
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 1: you haven't you haven't seen now I don't. I don't

1228
01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:07,919
Speaker 1: feel I don't think he will. But Greg, like I

1229
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: I don't feel like hear what you're saying. Greg, maybe

1230
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm wrong about the who who? Who would disagree with

1231
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: you more than it's a it's a competent way or

1232
01:02:14,600 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 1: a memorable way to go out to Tom Brady, right,

1233
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: They just he was He was esteemed and annoyed after

1234
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,880
Speaker 1: this game and throughout this game and last week and

1235
01:02:22,920 --> 01:02:24,720
Speaker 1: in previous weeks. As I've seen him, I think he's

1236
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: very frustrated. With how this offense finished in general. I

1237
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 1: think that's true. I take back saying would be in

1238
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: some way a good way. I guess in my it's

1239
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: my fandom that it's like, at least it wasn't embarrassing.

1240
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: He had a nice had come back and that was it.

1241
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 1: Because those reports and he basically said it to al

1242
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: and he probably said it to Jeff Darlington and Adam

1243
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: Schefter who reported on ESPN. They hinted at like, well,

1244
01:02:48,160 --> 01:02:50,680
Speaker 1: if he makes or wins the Super Bowl, then that's

1245
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: probably it. So he was he was already thinking that way,

1246
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 1: as if he could get to the finish line then

1247
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: maybe he was. Like. The part of that report also

1248
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: was like, actually his wife has wanted him to retire

1249
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 1: since two thousand seventeen. That must be. They were getting awkward, right,

1250
01:03:07,440 --> 01:03:10,479
Speaker 1: they were like half a decade ago, who was doing

1251
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: this game up? Yeah? Troy was like, yeah, I think

1252
01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: Giselle have a say of that, and I don't know.

1253
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,040
Speaker 1: I mean, this is Chris was saying that, and I

1254
01:03:18,080 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: was like, well, I think if she had to say

1255
01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 1: he would have retired four years ago. I don't he

1256
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: ken't throw the ball and catch it too. My favorite

1257
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: Giselle line of all time I do like this. That

1258
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 1: was a low moment from walking out of that Giants

1259
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 1: locker room and seeing Giselle waiting for Tom from s

1260
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,640
Speaker 1: I Mitch Goldnich that he tweeted the daytime Michael's and Collinsworth,

1261
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: It's like running into your teacher at the mall. It

1262
01:03:39,960 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: was very bizarre to me to listen to them at

1263
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 1: daytime because I'm typically what the we we we we

1264
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: watch football all day long together. We go watch that

1265
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 1: Sunday night performance in that in the Big View viewing

1266
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: room together when we're allowed in this building, and you

1267
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: get the throaty, kind of chalky Chris Collinsworth shouting at

1268
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: you for three hours as the nightcap. I don't understand

1269
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:03,440
Speaker 1: in the day Owl who's probably having cocktails um the

1270
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: Malibu coastline at two am the night before. You know,

1271
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: he's a night owl. He's a guy that like you

1272
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 1: could you could he was still waking up when it

1273
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 1: was one thirty in the afternoon. They're like Al's likes

1274
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: to hit up the nightlife. You Bucks are a prime

1275
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: time team. You and West always used to be annoyed

1276
01:04:22,120 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: at the light in Tampa afternoon games, which which was

1277
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: a little annoying, Well, it was much more annoying when

1278
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,959
Speaker 1: they were also like a wild trash bag of a team.

1279
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:32,520
Speaker 1: It's a little less annoying the sunshine in Florida when

1280
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 1: it's Brady Way. That was not a That was not

1281
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: a criticism of the great legendary Al Michaels. I just

1282
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: know Al likes he likes living in l a and

1283
01:04:40,840 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: he likes the life. What's the place where mel Gibson

1284
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: went shadows? Yeah, I'll have a steak. And more than

1285
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: just went there, he or just go there. He was

1286
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: his fun until it wasn't. What one last quick thing

1287
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: is we've been we should I do just want to

1288
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:57,920
Speaker 1: say how great Stafford was because he had nothing to

1289
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:01,440
Speaker 1: do with why they fell apart in this game. He

1290
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,480
Speaker 1: threw the ball over his head, his running backs fumbled twice,

1291
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup fumbled twice, his coach started running and not

1292
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: like letting him throw. He was excellent, uh and they

1293
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,440
Speaker 1: were aggressive from start to finish. He he was the

1294
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,200
Speaker 1: better you know, he was protected better, but he was

1295
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,080
Speaker 1: the better quarterback in this game. As if we needed

1296
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:21,120
Speaker 1: any more validation for that being one of the best

1297
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: trades in recent memory today basically locked that up and

1298
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:29,040
Speaker 1: they absolutely run with Andrew Whitworth out at left tackle.

1299
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen what that's done to the Bucks

1300
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:33,080
Speaker 1: to lose your star tackle on the right side. Joe

1301
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 1: note Boom came in and I thought he did a

1302
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 1: good job. I mean it's like that could have unspooled,

1303
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 1: got some theos. I didn't see much of a shack

1304
01:05:42,720 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: Barrett or or JPP. This team will not be the

1305
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: same next year. That's the thing they tried to do.

1306
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 1: They brought everyone back. That's not you know that the

1307
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:52,520
Speaker 1: look they got to this point they were in a

1308
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:56,240
Speaker 1: good position. But everyone's not gonna be back next year. JPP.

1309
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: For one, it will be one of those people. I'll

1310
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: tell you the first person. Yeah, I'll tell you the

1311
01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:03,440
Speaker 1: first person out the door of Tom Brady leaves Bruce Arians.

1312
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:08,479
Speaker 1: He's not on board with Like now, Arian said he's back,

1313
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 1: But there was there was talk also in the in

1314
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: the media that if they could make it to the

1315
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl that he would be out to um. But

1316
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: he was very quick in definitive saying he was back

1317
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 1: because I think he knows there's he can't have any

1318
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 1: equivocation there or else. Brad. They also have about five

1319
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:29,160
Speaker 1: million in effective cap space. So we'll see. All right,

1320
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: so the Buccaneers are dead, long lived the Buccaneers. There

1321
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:36,479
Speaker 1: will be a new Super Bowl champion. Let's find out

1322
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 1: the Rams opponent. Maybe you don't know, maybe you don't,

1323
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:44,560
Speaker 1: and now you'll find out. Well, maybe they missed that.

1324
01:06:44,720 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 1: How about this, how about bleep out the team that

1325
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: I mentioned. Erica's a great idea. What I mean there

1326
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 1: might be one person listening that is on the edge

1327
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 1: of their seats. Anything in the description. Why is the

1328
01:06:57,560 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: response in no way because if he really out of hand,

1329
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:03,200
Speaker 1: just I won't do it for you. The description is different.

1330
01:07:03,240 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: Most people don't know that you can avoid the description

1331
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: or put how about this, if where you were going

1332
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 1: to mention that team in the description six X is

1333
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:15,400
Speaker 1: five xes, leave it a surprise for everyone. Okay, So

1334
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: then we get into an s c O situation there, right,

1335
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,360
Speaker 1: because we're trying to drum up the you know, the clicks. Well,

1336
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: for the for the individual that did not watch the game,

1337
01:07:24,240 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 1: they probably aren't reading the description. They probably floated in

1338
01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 1: audio wise, you're very well practice that beeping out things.

1339
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: I mean, that's very true. Be you obedient, and then

1340
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 1: when people get to this part of the show, it's

1341
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: always got to go there. Mike. I'm just saying, well,

1342
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 1: I don't understand why the response is no way like

1343
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: I am allowed to suggest something and you might say

1344
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:46,120
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. I'll think about it, at least

1345
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:50,160
Speaker 1: I would if it was a good idea. Men uh

1346
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:53,720
Speaker 1: wanting saying they love Tom Brady. First it was Zolac,

1347
01:07:54,720 --> 01:08:00,480
Speaker 1: I love Tom Brady, and now it's cour down gorgeous,

1348
01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: gorgeous girls love Tom Brady. All right, let's get to

1349
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: another number one seed melk how as Bill I love

1350
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: you Tom. He got caught up in the moment. Cower

1351
01:08:14,760 --> 01:08:17,919
Speaker 1: Pepper Snap, it's a little high pulled on divers Shnowski.

1352
01:08:18,040 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: Robbie Gold has it away and it is good, good

1353
01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: as gold. Robbie is. Robbie Gold has kicked the forty

1354
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: diners to victory here in Green Bay. Oh, the bongos,

1355
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 1: you gotta can you supplement the bongos with some you

1356
01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 1: know who I'm looking for? Pheely good as gold, Robby

1357
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 1: Is I just hit it, hit it like five times

1358
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:58,240
Speaker 1: in a row. Now, be obedient, obedius with this all right? Ready, No,

1359
01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: Robbie Gold got his gold. He is. Gold makes a

1360
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,600
Speaker 1: forty five yard field goal Saturday night time expires. The

1361
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: Niners knock off the top seeded Packers thirteen ten. Yes,

1362
01:09:16,200 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 1: it is the forty Niners listener X who will meet

1363
01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:24,000
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams and SOFI Stadium for the right

1364
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,320
Speaker 1: to play in Super Bowl fifty six right here at

1365
01:09:27,840 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium. Would that be weird if two years after

1366
01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,800
Speaker 1: never happening for fifty five years or whatever, two years

1367
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:36,640
Speaker 1: in a row the team in the Super Bowl is

1368
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 1: playing in their own stadium. That could happen. That's in

1369
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:41,680
Speaker 1: play now. It doesn't matter right now because we're talking

1370
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 1: about the Niners. Robbie Gold has made all twenty of

1371
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,560
Speaker 1: his career playoff field goal tempts. Maybe he should be

1372
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 1: number one in McPherson number two type battle. I'll have

1373
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: to think about that. I'll get back to you on

1374
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:54,920
Speaker 1: Thursday with the official rankings. Uh. The Niners continue to

1375
01:09:55,280 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: put a postseason curse on Aaron Rodgers. Uh. They have

1376
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 1: always had their way with him. And for the Packers,

1377
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: Greg this is a lot more disaployment. We'll get to them.

1378
01:10:07,040 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: But the Niners is a gritty win by a team

1379
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:13,040
Speaker 1: that just finds a way. I feel like such a

1380
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:16,040
Speaker 1: company man. But how how great is the NFL that

1381
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:18,519
Speaker 1: you can have these two classic games and I consider

1382
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 1: this a classic game, and one is forty six in

1383
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 1: overtime and one is thirteen to ten in the snow

1384
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 1: in the same categories. Different Certainly the execution and like

1385
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 1: the level of football is not the same. But in

1386
01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: terms of it being a memorable football moment that was

1387
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:43,880
Speaker 1: so tense throughout the game, that had an explosive uh

1388
01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: ending and had me riveted and had great plays. Absolutely,

1389
01:10:47,960 --> 01:10:50,919
Speaker 1: the one player I'll remember forever is that Deebo Samuel

1390
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: third and seven run one oh three left such a

1391
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: fascinating moment. I think for a coach, the Packers had

1392
01:10:58,000 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 1: no time outs, and I just thought they kind of

1393
01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:02,840
Speaker 1: have to run it here. As much as I'm like

1394
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: the stay aggressive guy was like, you kind of have

1395
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 1: to run it here. You can't give Rogers the time

1396
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 1: and you've got to try to run it twice and

1397
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:13,439
Speaker 1: see what happens that. That's who you are. You're the

1398
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:16,640
Speaker 1: forty Niners, and worst case scenario, you you bring the

1399
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,599
Speaker 1: clock down and you don't let the Packers get the ball.

1400
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 1: They they line up and shotgun to spread them out.

1401
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:26,000
Speaker 1: They get used check running all the way across the

1402
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 1: plate to check it out even more. They pull their

1403
01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:31,839
Speaker 1: guard and then they give the ball the Deebo Samuel,

1404
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:33,880
Speaker 1: a wide receiver who only had eighty three yards in

1405
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: this game, but was like, it's like the most impactful

1406
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 1: eighty three yards plus that kick return you will ever see,

1407
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 1: and it's what the forty niners are all about. You

1408
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,720
Speaker 1: have Juwan Jennings, a wide receiver blocking out there, you

1409
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,400
Speaker 1: have Kiddle blocking out there, and then you have Deebo

1410
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: who has two guys pretty much unblocked that he has

1411
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 1: to beat, and he like dead legs Gay Alexander who

1412
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,720
Speaker 1: came back for this game last couple of weeks and

1413
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: just kind of puts a move on him, breaks the tackle,

1414
01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: gets the first down. It was a perfect play call

1415
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,160
Speaker 1: of like doing what your best that your best player.

1416
01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 1: They convert it and Gold gets it done a few

1417
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 1: plays later. It was an awesome way to end. I

1418
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: love that you paired it with the Chiefs and Bills

1419
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,360
Speaker 1: game because I think if you were to like double

1420
01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:22,120
Speaker 1: bill football games like you do movies, it was such

1421
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 1: a different type of game, and you know, watching this

1422
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 1: with my kids a little bit too, it's like, oh,

1423
01:12:27,520 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: special teams for certain teams, if you can if you

1424
01:12:30,400 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 1: can make that and maximize that, That's what the Niners did.

1425
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:35,559
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the that Deebo sam of the

1426
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 1: fact that he was playing injured at that point that

1427
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:41,600
Speaker 1: it was snowing that it was the Niners against this

1428
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 1: this matchup. To me, I enjoyed watching this so thoroughly,

1429
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,320
Speaker 1: and there was a moment in this that I thought

1430
01:12:47,479 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 1: showed that gave the Niners total hope before halftime because

1431
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:53,840
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ward blocks the field goal. Before that, he had

1432
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: allowed Aaron Jones to have the seventy five yard catch

1433
01:12:56,960 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: and run the blown coverage that that really put them

1434
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 1: into a hole. Then the field goal is blocked by

1435
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,559
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ward right before halftime, because if you look at

1436
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 1: the way Green Bay came out on that first drive,

1437
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: I thought this thing was going to be curtains for

1438
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Instead they start to put the muzzle over

1439
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,479
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and the green Bay offense. You go into

1440
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 1: halftime off that special teams play with a completely different mindset,

1441
01:13:19,439 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 1: feeling like we're the more resilient team. This reminds us

1442
01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: of so many of our different wins. We trust that

1443
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:26,600
Speaker 1: Shanahan's gonna get out of get us out of this.

1444
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,959
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers butt is tightening by the minute. The Packers

1445
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 1: are not here for the moment. And this is what

1446
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:36,000
Speaker 1: Green Bay does every single January. They are misfits. They

1447
01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 1: are absolute meltdown artists. And I I know I have

1448
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 1: I I know that a lot of listeners come at

1449
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:44,280
Speaker 1: me from being hard being hard on the Packers. They

1450
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:47,200
Speaker 1: are a regular season team that doesn't know how to close,

1451
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 1: and they were taken to town by a football team

1452
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: that played all three phases and did not let up.

1453
01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:56,720
Speaker 1: So we all phases, including well they played all three

1454
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: they executed two of them very well into this game,

1455
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,519
Speaker 1: thinking this Packer, this team would be different, like we

1456
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: talked about it on the on the Network show on

1457
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 1: Saturday at this and yet they weren't. And I think,

1458
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:10,120
Speaker 1: what for me? Um? When I think about this game

1459
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 1: and why I don't see it as necessarily a classic

1460
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 1: is when when a team, let's I think this game

1461
01:14:16,520 --> 01:14:19,360
Speaker 1: of the Packers lost more than the Niners won, and

1462
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 1: and that affects like when I think of like all

1463
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:24,600
Speaker 1: time classic playoff games, and I you know, they go

1464
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:27,679
Speaker 1: right down the field, they score a touchdown, they get

1465
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 1: the ball back in a sneaky underrated play in this

1466
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: game is Marcedes Lewis fumbles on the second possession where

1467
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 1: they're marching again. To be absolutely but from that point

1468
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: on and everyone's gonna be dwelling on the special teams.

1469
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,639
Speaker 1: And I get that because not only did the field

1470
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: goal get blocked thirty nine yard or at the end

1471
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: of the first half that would have put him up

1472
01:14:49,560 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 1: ten nothing, they then allow a forty five yard kickoff

1473
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,240
Speaker 1: return on the first play of the second half, and

1474
01:14:56,280 --> 01:15:00,080
Speaker 1: then of course the block punt and touchdown return and

1475
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: heard around the world of four or forty one remaining.

1476
01:15:02,640 --> 01:15:05,360
Speaker 1: But the thing with Aaron Rodgers and the thing with

1477
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:08,480
Speaker 1: the Packers this year was this was a special offense

1478
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 1: that was supposed to rise through the occasion. And I

1479
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:14,719
Speaker 1: think starting with that Marcedes Lewis fumble, they got tighter

1480
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 1: and tighter and tighter and tighter. And think about the

1481
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:22,599
Speaker 1: two possessions for the Packers, that sandwich, that block punt.

1482
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 1: It was a three and out and a three and out.

1483
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 1: Like Rodgers needs to wear this loss as much as

1484
01:15:28,800 --> 01:15:31,680
Speaker 1: anyone else because he's the guy that's going to get

1485
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: the m v P Trophy, and he came up very small,

1486
01:15:35,600 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 1: as did the rest of the team. I hated the scheme.

1487
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:39,720
Speaker 1: Like we were talking about or I was talking about

1488
01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard, barely gets targeted in this game. All it

1489
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:48,280
Speaker 1: was Aaron Jones and it was Davante Adams attempts to

1490
01:15:48,320 --> 01:15:50,679
Speaker 1: those two And at the end I did a sky

1491
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: Sports hit at the end of the third quarter and

1492
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: they had not yet targeted a wide receiver other than

1493
01:15:56,439 --> 01:16:00,200
Speaker 1: Davante Adams targeted. And so what happened? Why did that?

1494
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:02,240
Speaker 1: Now you gotta give credit to San Francisco, of course,

1495
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: but what happened with this team? How did they get tight?

1496
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 1: That goes to the head coach as well. I think

1497
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: that the weather is a helpful equalizer. I think the

1498
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: forty Niners pass rush was awesome. Bosa with five pressures,

1499
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:19,800
Speaker 1: two sacks, Armstead with four pressures two sacks. If you

1500
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:23,840
Speaker 1: think about those special teams gaffs, what happened right before

1501
01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:28,879
Speaker 1: both of them sacks in the red zone. Aaron Rodgers

1502
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: had twenty six seconds left in the first half when

1503
01:16:31,120 --> 01:16:33,799
Speaker 1: he took that sack, and and those were quick sacks.

1504
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:36,519
Speaker 1: Those were not sacks I really put on Rogers. Those

1505
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 1: were sacks where the old line kind of collapsed and

1506
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 1: they got to him almost right away. Uh, the one

1507
01:16:41,080 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 1: before half of him. They had a lot of time

1508
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: there to go try to score, but instead they sacked him.

1509
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: And then they just had to spike it and do

1510
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:48,800
Speaker 1: the kick and the same thing with the block punt.

1511
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: You're you're buried deep. Uh. There he he makes a

1512
01:16:52,320 --> 01:16:55,280
Speaker 1: mistake on second down. Uh, and he gets sacked on

1513
01:16:55,600 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 1: third down. So it was they moved their entire offensive around.

1514
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: Billy Turner came back, but Bakari didn't. And Billy Turner

1515
01:17:04,360 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 1: is another starter who's been out for a while, and

1516
01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: they decided to put him at left tackle. They got

1517
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 1: rid of our guy, Yoshi. I forget what his name is.

1518
01:17:12,160 --> 01:17:14,680
Speaker 1: I call him Yoshi. Uh. And then they moved they

1519
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 1: like moved the guards from anyone. What is his name? Yoshi?

1520
01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:25,479
Speaker 1: Our guy. He's one of my favorite names in the NFL.

1521
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: I should know his name. He's he's been there left

1522
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 1: tackle for the last few weeks with Turner. Anyways, they

1523
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 1: reshuffled their entire offensive line and that seemed to cause

1524
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 1: some sort of communication, and uh, it was maybe a

1525
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:44,160
Speaker 1: decision that La Fleur regrets, and certainly they were bringing

1526
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:46,320
Speaker 1: it up during the broadcast that maybe it might be

1527
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 1: something they regret that they moved around three or four positions.

1528
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 1: Yoshi Ni, I mean this they overcame, you know what,

1529
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 1: was pretty stagnant, obviously and mistake prone Niner's offense. I

1530
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:00,600
Speaker 1: mean Jimmy G with seven minut it's left in the

1531
01:18:00,640 --> 01:18:04,560
Speaker 1: third quarter, had six completions that traveled twenty one yards downfield.

1532
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: They overcame a terrible interception by Jimmy Jr. The goal

1533
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 1: line that set up that Aaron Rohns Aaron Jones catch

1534
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 1: and run. There were a lot of risky throws by

1535
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy G. There were a lot of drops. It was.

1536
01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:17,559
Speaker 1: It was not a good effort. I kind of thought

1537
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:20,200
Speaker 1: the Niners would tell us who they were by their

1538
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:22,840
Speaker 1: first driver too, with their scripted drives. They wanted to

1539
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 1: run the ball forty times. They were total duds. I thought,

1540
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: maybe this is the game where the journey is over

1541
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:33,160
Speaker 1: for this team. They're not Texas, I recall, I mean

1542
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. I said on our network show

1543
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:36,639
Speaker 1: that I wanted to see what happened on the first drive.

1544
01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: It couldn't have been worse. I just couldn't be more

1545
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:40,760
Speaker 1: impressed with the way they worked the way out of this.

1546
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: I do think the weather, to your point, Greg, changed

1547
01:18:43,479 --> 01:18:44,880
Speaker 1: it for both teams. And I'm sure we'll get a

1548
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:47,080
Speaker 1: bunch of thinks that doesn't it hurt the team that's

1549
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:50,400
Speaker 1: better at passing. It absolutely was zero degrees there, but

1550
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: it's like it's at Lambeau and they were eight no, right,

1551
01:18:56,479 --> 01:18:59,200
Speaker 1: and the Kyle Sannan said like, we'll be happy to

1552
01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:01,439
Speaker 1: be playing somewhere warm next week. But I think it

1553
01:19:02,120 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 1: helped them. They were built more for it. I mean,

1554
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:07,600
Speaker 1: I although that said, I mean they've had probably sixteen

1555
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: better offensive performances this season. So I'm not sure, but

1556
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:13,759
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, I take the trade off

1557
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 1: because I think it just made it tougher for the receiver.

1558
01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 1: Just put the Packers in the dome at this point

1559
01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: because Lambeau maybe isn't an advantage for Green Bay in

1560
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 1: the situation. Keep melting down in this, but what do

1561
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,280
Speaker 1: they texted me that they're like seven and seven? I

1562
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,240
Speaker 1: think that was me, Greg did it? I think I

1563
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:35,200
Speaker 1: think it was me. I said that, But we're doing

1564
01:19:35,200 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: these games like eight hundred texts Happenny, where you're trying

1565
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 1: to watch the game. Please. I feel really bad too

1566
01:19:39,920 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 1: about yoscause because like Yoshi just reminds you of Mario Kart,

1567
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:49,559
Speaker 1: and like this man though deserves He's not Yoshi, says Yoshi,

1568
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:52,200
Speaker 1: so he deserves. What happened the back by the way,

1569
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: that was? That was That was one of the more

1570
01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: the dumb subplots we've had to deal with for the

1571
01:19:56,760 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: past yea. They went in attend and then vanished. Well,

1572
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:04,720
Speaker 1: he clearly didn't, you know, he tried to return it,

1573
01:20:04,840 --> 01:20:07,839
Speaker 1: clearly his body. Many mistakes were made by the packers,

1574
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:12,400
Speaker 1: obviously in execution on Saturday night, but was bringing in

1575
01:20:12,439 --> 01:20:14,559
Speaker 1: back the r back in week eighteen for a tune

1576
01:20:14,640 --> 01:20:16,599
Speaker 1: up for a game he didn't even make two weeks later.

1577
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 1: I wonder if that's something privately that they botched as well.

1578
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:22,040
Speaker 1: I get why they did that though, because we were asking, oh,

1579
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: will the chemistry be there when they put all of

1580
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,880
Speaker 1: them into the Rogers said, I was so happy to

1581
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: like play with those two guys with wells who did

1582
01:20:29,160 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: who did play in this game? The center I do

1583
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:35,120
Speaker 1: want to talk about like the Rogers missed though, so

1584
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:39,720
Speaker 1: the way it ended was crazy in terms of their

1585
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: last possession. I misspoke before I was mixing up the drives.

1586
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 1: His last throw of the game was that deep shot

1587
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:51,840
Speaker 1: to Davante Adams where once they got the coaches tape out,

1588
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: today he has Lazard breaking open on a pretty clear read.

1589
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: It's tough for like dorks like us to be like, oh,

1590
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: you should have thrown it there, but this is one

1591
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: and and smarter people than me have broken it down

1592
01:21:04,479 --> 01:21:07,599
Speaker 1: where it's like, okay, if the safety goes here, then

1593
01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: then you get the crosser here and Lazard is wide open.

1594
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:15,120
Speaker 1: And instead he clearly kind of made the decision I'm

1595
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:18,439
Speaker 1: just gonna give give Davante Adams a chance, and he

1596
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 1: just hucked it up and it's like totally not what

1597
01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:24,479
Speaker 1: he has done the entire season. And it was very

1598
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: far ving and it was very far against the Giants

1599
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 1: where he just started like chucking the balls. This is

1600
01:21:31,200 --> 01:21:33,280
Speaker 1: something that now needs to be talked about. This is

1601
01:21:33,439 --> 01:21:35,679
Speaker 1: this is a big that that was a big legacy

1602
01:21:35,720 --> 01:21:39,679
Speaker 1: game for Rogers. The resume is stacking up. Now what's

1603
01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,400
Speaker 1: happening in these January games and to see what he

1604
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:45,640
Speaker 1: did yesterday, and again you're right right, there was a

1605
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: lot of past protection issues, but when he was as

1606
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:53,040
Speaker 1: dominant as he was for most like of this season,

1607
01:21:53,080 --> 01:21:55,960
Speaker 1: including untouchable in the last seven weeks, and then to

1608
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: fail to move the team when the when the season

1609
01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: was on the line, then you watch what happened today, Arrowhead.

1610
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:02,920
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool there too, by the way, and you

1611
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 1: see Josh Allen and Patrick go Homes just going at

1612
01:22:05,920 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 1: each other back and forth, brilliant artists at the peak

1613
01:22:08,920 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: of their game. It makes me think differently about Rogers

1614
01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:15,599
Speaker 1: after this particular game. He's still a legendary player. He's

1615
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 1: still probably worthy of being the m v P this year,

1616
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:20,799
Speaker 1: but that you can no longer look the other way

1617
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: with this January stuff. I tried to look the other

1618
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,519
Speaker 1: way at Mark and it cost me. In the lock game.

1619
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,680
Speaker 1: I had a chance to win the title out right

1620
01:22:30,080 --> 01:22:32,960
Speaker 1: and I lost it. And I now he lost it

1621
01:22:33,040 --> 01:22:35,800
Speaker 1: for you. He certainly did. And I will tell you what.

1622
01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:41,719
Speaker 1: I now have to pull like at the break glass,

1623
01:22:41,920 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 1: and I have to flip the emergency switches. Ride or

1624
01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:48,559
Speaker 1: die with mahomes Well. This is riding or die with

1625
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: momes Well. I I I won't be afraid to confront

1626
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 1: you again. I'll i'll, you know, consult my own internal strategy.

1627
01:22:55,120 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 1: But I'm not looking necessarily to tie here. Um, nor

1628
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:00,320
Speaker 1: am I I feel the same. I mean, but there

1629
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: was there was a year that you caught me and tied,

1630
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:04,559
Speaker 1: and like, I have to take that into consideration. But

1631
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 1: that was sort of a cheesy photo of both of us,

1632
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:10,519
Speaker 1: like holding a trophy together. Now it's just absurd. So

1633
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:12,760
Speaker 1: there's a lot to look ahead. But UM, I'm with

1634
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:15,360
Speaker 1: you on one thing. I am not doing this again

1635
01:23:15,400 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers. I will not. I am not. Like,

1636
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:20,200
Speaker 1: I don't think he is either. I don't think he

1637
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:22,640
Speaker 1: is interested in a rebuild on any level. They are

1638
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: forty four million over the cap heading into the offseason.

1639
01:23:25,520 --> 01:23:27,960
Speaker 1: They got a lot of big questions. His comments after

1640
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:31,320
Speaker 1: the game I thought were I mean tilted towards uh uh,

1641
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:35,639
Speaker 1: not into it anymore. Really, So I we all agree

1642
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: that we think he's coming back at this point. I

1643
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 1: think he'll come back and retire in week six. Things

1644
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: are bad, but that's he's He's had some annoying, to

1645
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: put it mildly moments this year, and my least favorite

1646
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:50,840
Speaker 1: was reading that entire ESPN article, like if you were

1647
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: trying to give Aaron Rodgers any benefit of the doubt.

1648
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,720
Speaker 1: He drove me crazy in that article. I don't know

1649
01:23:57,760 --> 01:24:00,120
Speaker 1: if you read it. And so I like, like a

1650
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:02,200
Speaker 1: lot of people apparently on Twitter, was was, you know,

1651
01:24:02,240 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: happy to see them lose on some level and and

1652
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 1: happy to yeah, say bye bye. But I watched the

1653
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:11,760
Speaker 1: press conference. I thought he handled it pretty well. I

1654
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:15,479
Speaker 1: don't think it it showed much either way he was

1655
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 1: he was trying to be fair. I don't know. I

1656
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: went into this game kind of assuming he would be

1657
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,120
Speaker 1: back with with the Packers. He did say the good

1658
01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:26,720
Speaker 1: at Cunts relationships going well. I I think he wants

1659
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:28,880
Speaker 1: to keep playing football. I think he would like when

1660
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:30,600
Speaker 1: he went. I would have voted Brady, but when he

1661
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 1: wins the MVP, it's a regular season award. Uh. But

1662
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 1: he just played poorly this game. It wasn't just that

1663
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: unless he doesn't love the game. And the Packers aren't

1664
01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 1: getting rid of him, like they have all the leverage,

1665
01:24:43,160 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: they have him under contract, They're not handing it over

1666
01:24:45,280 --> 01:24:47,920
Speaker 1: to Jordan's love like they're gonna give him some more money.

1667
01:24:47,960 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: I just don't see how it wouldn't work out that way.

1668
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:53,280
Speaker 1: But to your point that he has to wear like

1669
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: he his location was off throughout the game. It was

1670
01:24:57,439 --> 01:24:59,519
Speaker 1: in the play before that Lazard miss he almost threw

1671
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:02,679
Speaker 1: an intercept been trying to force it to Randall cop

1672
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:05,640
Speaker 1: It was not It was not a good game. He

1673
01:25:05,640 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: didn't out play Jimmy G. Jimmy G who was not

1674
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:10,400
Speaker 1: good in this game either, but he made as many

1675
01:25:10,439 --> 01:25:12,240
Speaker 1: plays as right, he made a couple of plays. I

1676
01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 1: think statistically you look at the box score and it says, oh,

1677
01:25:14,840 --> 01:25:18,640
Speaker 1: Rogers outplayed him, but really, well, let's let's face it

1678
01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 1: that Rogers was a massive disappointment. Rogers bombed out in

1679
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: this game. And he's the m v P. So like there,

1680
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: there's a higher bar that needs to be uh Met

1681
01:25:27,360 --> 01:25:29,880
Speaker 1: Garoppolo could easily throw a pick six or two in

1682
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: this game, but he didn't. And the Niners are moving on,

1683
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:36,240
Speaker 1: and that is as annoying as to me the performances

1684
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,639
Speaker 1: of the Packers. You just gotta give it to the Niners.

1685
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 1: And and think about now that they go to l

1686
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 1: A to face the Rams for a chance to go

1687
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:46,479
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl, and they know they could beat

1688
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:48,760
Speaker 1: the Rams, and that's gonna be an interesting game to

1689
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: watch how it all unfold. How about Shanny just kind

1690
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 1: of owning Matt Lafleur and owning Sean McVeigh. I thought

1691
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: they were they had split their mass ups before. Yeah,

1692
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: maybe it's that I was thinking, Um, well, next week

1693
01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 1: could change everything about all that business. Well, they he's

1694
01:26:06,000 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 1: owned Sean McVeigh. You know, they've won what sixth straight? Uh,

1695
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: and they they've certainly maybe it's the forty Niners that

1696
01:26:13,240 --> 01:26:15,759
Speaker 1: have owned Aaron Rodgers after passing on him in the draft.

1697
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: You know, he's never beating him in the playoffs in

1698
01:26:17,920 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But I've noticed that Shanny is coming for

1699
01:26:21,080 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: la Fleur's beard. You know, fre is known for this,

1700
01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: and it's almost thin to the point of silly. Now

1701
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:32,919
Speaker 1: Lafleur and Shanahan's beard has never looked better, never more groomed.

1702
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:36,800
Speaker 1: He outbearded the bearded boy, and he went to, well,

1703
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:38,280
Speaker 1: one is it. One is a boy. So that's the

1704
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:40,880
Speaker 1: that's that's the beginning. Hard when you're a boy, it's hard,

1705
01:26:41,120 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 1: all Right's spinning forward Sunday, January two two And by

1706
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 1: the way, you don't have to worry about anything. COVID

1707
01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:52,360
Speaker 1: related COVID has been cured in the NFL. We're done

1708
01:26:52,360 --> 01:26:54,640
Speaker 1: with that now all. Now we just need Fauci to

1709
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:57,559
Speaker 1: connect with certain figures in the NFL and the rest

1710
01:26:57,560 --> 01:26:59,880
Speaker 1: of the world will be fine as well. So just

1711
01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 1: given everybody heads up on that, isn't it crazy? That?

1712
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 1: And I'm happy obviously, and we all should be happy

1713
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:11,519
Speaker 1: that we just went through this entire weekend of playoff

1714
01:27:11,520 --> 01:27:15,040
Speaker 1: football and it wasn't even on the radar, like whether

1715
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:17,479
Speaker 1: you think that's good or bad or right or wrong.

1716
01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:19,720
Speaker 1: From where we were in December where it looked like

1717
01:27:19,720 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: the season was about to go under. Do you get

1718
01:27:22,280 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: to this place? And it didn't even come up. Really,

1719
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 1: it has to do with something green with the face

1720
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:31,160
Speaker 1: of presidents on it, and uh, there the machine will

1721
01:27:31,200 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: not be Usually I would say that, but I think

1722
01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:35,280
Speaker 1: there's some other No, you're I'm wrong. The league is

1723
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 1: very pure and uh that's you know, that's there, that's

1724
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:40,360
Speaker 1: how they'll perceive. No, I think there might be some

1725
01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 1: things going on here where we might see society start

1726
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: to follow a path that the NFL is on. Not

1727
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,679
Speaker 1: that the NFL started this, but it's also died down.

1728
01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:50,840
Speaker 1: It's kind of like my kids school. There were six

1729
01:27:50,880 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 1: people in it two weeks ago, and there's eight ten,

1730
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, in Ellis's class. So there's six in it

1731
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:57,920
Speaker 1: two weeks ago and there's eighteen in it now. Right now,

1732
01:27:57,920 --> 01:28:01,240
Speaker 1: there's just the general idea that there's we might be

1733
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:03,639
Speaker 1: reaching a stage where society is just like, we gotta

1734
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: live with this. We lost, We're taking the l you

1735
01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 1: can't do this, you can't do this business all next season.

1736
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:11,640
Speaker 1: And they don't intend to dying down. It's well, you

1737
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 1: said I was going to die down after the I'm

1738
01:28:13,920 --> 01:28:18,200
Speaker 1: just saying this wave. It's clearly on the recess was

1739
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 1: what was It's going to be fine by June? That

1740
01:28:21,960 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: was you know, into whatever. It wasn't as bad as

1741
01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:27,599
Speaker 1: the like the first weekend of it. Erica on our

1742
01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:30,840
Speaker 1: Network show's final thought was everyone should go out and

1743
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 1: oh my god, I forgot live your life. Ordering the

1744
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:39,960
Speaker 1: people together to to breathe into each other together. I said,

1745
01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 1: safely outside in blocks are good for your mental hall

1746
01:28:43,240 --> 01:28:45,800
Speaker 1: like they Even the NFL just announced that they are

1747
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:50,519
Speaker 1: not testing unvaccinated players anymore if they're you know, unless

1748
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:55,759
Speaker 1: they're showing real symptoms, symptoms like it is. So many

1749
01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 1: players self reported for those couple of weeks too, but

1750
01:28:59,360 --> 01:29:01,800
Speaker 1: I think, well, unless they're on your favorite team, But

1751
01:29:01,880 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: like that kind of went out the window. I feel

1752
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: like once the player, once the playoffs started, in terms

1753
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 1: of like you were leaving it up to the players

1754
01:29:09,200 --> 01:29:11,799
Speaker 1: to self report. They did that in the regular season,

1755
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:13,880
Speaker 1: and they're not like Deepo Samuels, like I have a

1756
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:19,080
Speaker 1: small cough you next season, like, no, shut up, you

1757
01:29:19,120 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 1: will say nothing if you will play for sixty minutes.

1758
01:29:21,880 --> 01:29:23,680
Speaker 1: They missed a j Dillon in that game. That was

1759
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: a big well, that is a nuclear level loss for

1760
01:29:28,880 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: the Packers. I really thought, I'm gonna tell you something

1761
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 1: right now. If Rogers comes back and of sports writers

1762
01:29:34,920 --> 01:29:36,840
Speaker 1: picked in to win in the NFC, I'm out of here.

1763
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 1: This was coming to work for Home and Guarden magazine.

1764
01:29:39,320 --> 01:29:43,040
Speaker 1: You know, I think you like Rogers. You locked them up.

1765
01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:45,719
Speaker 1: I think you got to recognize this was a classic

1766
01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:50,240
Speaker 1: different not at the same level, but also very memorable. No,

1767
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 1: I will remember the Packers gagging and collapsing into puddle

1768
01:29:56,439 --> 01:29:58,679
Speaker 1: their own peace. Was it exciting? Like the block punt

1769
01:29:58,720 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 1: was an exciting play. I'm not saying it wasn't Like

1770
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:04,240
Speaker 1: I like fun low scoring games. Too. I'm just saying

1771
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:10,120
Speaker 1: the Packers utterly collapsing and pooping themselves on Saturday night

1772
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 1: was a highly disappointing outcome for a team that here,

1773
01:30:14,439 --> 01:30:17,559
Speaker 1: this is what it's about for me, especially like, for instance,

1774
01:30:17,560 --> 01:30:21,759
Speaker 1: I item number one of the power rankings. Well, listen,

1775
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:24,880
Speaker 1: let me explain. When you watched all the games and

1776
01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:29,280
Speaker 1: you get invested in the themes of a season and

1777
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:31,880
Speaker 1: how how teams respond to certain things and how a

1778
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 1: quarterback plays, and they everything's pointing to this is a

1779
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:39,320
Speaker 1: big time, real deal team. And then people say, oh yeah,

1780
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: but sometimes in January and sometimes and then I'm like

1781
01:30:43,040 --> 01:30:46,280
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, well, I've watched every snap of

1782
01:30:46,320 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: this team, and I've watched the way this quarterback is playing,

1783
01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:52,680
Speaker 1: and I'm going to lean on everything that's happened this

1784
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:55,320
Speaker 1: year to inform how this weekend goes. And then a

1785
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 1: totally different team shows up. That's annoying. That's a lot

1786
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 1: magical way to approach exercise as such as power rankings.

1787
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:06,920
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you, but the clock has struck midnight

1788
01:31:07,240 --> 01:31:10,920
Speaker 1: on Green Bay, not just sometimes every single year since

1789
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:16,160
Speaker 1: two Aaron Rodgers, but one Super Bowl. You said in

1790
01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:18,679
Speaker 1: clear terms that you think this team is different also

1791
01:31:18,760 --> 01:31:21,000
Speaker 1: than right, But I the Niners to win. I picked

1792
01:31:21,040 --> 01:31:23,040
Speaker 1: the Niners to win the game. I didn't think this

1793
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:27,160
Speaker 1: was what do you mean? I was different than the

1794
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:29,479
Speaker 1: past times for weeks and weeks. I do think that

1795
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:32,320
Speaker 1: they they're not the same Packers team where the defense

1796
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 1: under Dom Capers with his fake hair flying in the wind,

1797
01:31:36,200 --> 01:31:38,280
Speaker 1: is going to totally collapse. That. I do think they

1798
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:40,400
Speaker 1: were built differently. But I did not think they were

1799
01:31:40,400 --> 01:31:42,080
Speaker 1: going to win this game. I picked the Niners. There's

1800
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: not I didn't say to things. I picked the Niners too,

1801
01:31:44,439 --> 01:31:45,960
Speaker 1: partly because I just thought it was fun and I

1802
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:48,920
Speaker 1: thought they'd cover, and because it started raining along with

1803
01:31:48,960 --> 01:31:57,920
Speaker 1: that snow that's right, freezing rain. Oh yeah, Baker for

1804
01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:01,320
Speaker 1: the year, you're going are more annoying than Aaron Rodgers

1805
01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: are talking about quitting. Just don't do it or do it?

1806
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 1: That's fair. Uh. I didn't think it was like a

1807
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 1: mismatch though. To me, these teams were pretty close to

1808
01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:12,640
Speaker 1: even over the course of the season. I know that

1809
01:32:12,640 --> 01:32:14,760
Speaker 1: seems crazy, but over the course of like the last

1810
01:32:14,840 --> 01:32:17,040
Speaker 1: nine or ten games. And that's the thing about the NFL.

1811
01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: We we invest so much time, especially us because we're

1812
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 1: working in it into it all being like this build

1813
01:32:23,560 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: up and it's like your resume and here's what you did.

1814
01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:29,639
Speaker 1: But it's just like one game. And these two teams personally,

1815
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:31,479
Speaker 1: I don't think we're too even. I think the forty

1816
01:32:31,520 --> 01:32:34,120
Speaker 1: Niners have a lot going for them other than the quarterback,

1817
01:32:34,320 --> 01:32:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, other than the two quarterbacks. I think the

1818
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:40,120
Speaker 1: forty Niners are legitimately a better team. They get into

1819
01:32:40,120 --> 01:32:42,679
Speaker 1: teams heads. When we picked the game, I said, well,

1820
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:48,400
Speaker 1: ultimately Aaron Rodgers Jimmy Garoppolo. That's unless unless Aaron Rodgers

1821
01:32:48,400 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 1: p's down his leg in a huge spy in the playoffs,

1822
01:32:51,680 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 1: and an m v P shouldn't do that. He's not

1823
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 1: special and special teams. Was a seven point difference and

1824
01:32:57,080 --> 01:32:59,599
Speaker 1: they won by three because they blocked the field goal,

1825
01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:03,120
Speaker 1: they get the touchdown, they also get the return. You

1826
01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 1: know who's piste off it? And right you think like

1827
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:08,080
Speaker 1: we are whatever you are, like, you know who's pissed

1828
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:12,479
Speaker 1: is Rashaan Gary and Kenny Clark and that defense who

1829
01:33:12,479 --> 01:33:15,280
Speaker 1: gave up six points. They get up six points in

1830
01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:18,240
Speaker 1: a playoff game and they lost. And that's why I

1831
01:33:18,280 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't I wouldn't like I wouldn't like the Niners next week,

1832
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:23,280
Speaker 1: but then again, they find a way and the Rams

1833
01:33:23,280 --> 01:33:25,839
Speaker 1: are showing they are not really good at stepping on throats,

1834
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,800
Speaker 1: so that's But if you take out the Rams three

1835
01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:35,840
Speaker 1: times in one season, this feels like a different Rams

1836
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:37,519
Speaker 1: team to me than the one that got thumped by

1837
01:33:37,560 --> 01:33:41,920
Speaker 1: the Niners on primetime. It just does. It's yeah, yeah, well,

1838
01:33:41,960 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: well all right, so the Bengals are still in the

1839
01:33:44,320 --> 01:33:46,280
Speaker 1: west of his time slot. Even though they're in the

1840
01:33:46,320 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 1: a f C Championship game. They're the noon window. They

1841
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 1: do not before the season starts, so that doesn't feel

1842
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:54,200
Speaker 1: like a slight Well, it happened three weeks in a row.

1843
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:56,240
Speaker 1: That's all I can tell you. A CBS that's that's

1844
01:33:56,360 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 1: Romo and Nance Bengals Chiefs. Three o'clock from gee Field

1845
01:34:00,360 --> 01:34:03,920
Speaker 1: at Arrowhead Stadium. I don't recognize that it's Arrowhead and

1846
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:09,639
Speaker 1: then three thirty uh Pacific, six thirty eastern next door?

1847
01:34:09,680 --> 01:34:13,680
Speaker 1: Should we go Niners? Rams? Should we try to go?

1848
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:17,479
Speaker 1: Should we ask for press? Press passes? Here? Danny, I

1849
01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: would like to go to a Okay, I've never We've

1850
01:34:21,920 --> 01:34:24,000
Speaker 1: been lucky enough to go to many Super Bowls. I've

1851
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:27,639
Speaker 1: never been to a conference championship. Do you guys include

1852
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:30,559
Speaker 1: me on the credentials email or we will? I don't

1853
01:34:30,560 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 1: know you Usually that's actually the producer's job. So well,

1854
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 1: you did it without me even knowing last time. Maybe

1855
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:40,679
Speaker 1: if you if you follow my suggestion on a couple

1856
01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 1: you know, Okay, Mark, I'll go back and bleep a

1857
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:45,599
Speaker 1: score that you gave that happened from a game from yesterday.

1858
01:34:47,040 --> 01:34:49,599
Speaker 1: Someone listen to it on Monday. I've been to two.

1859
01:34:49,640 --> 01:34:52,280
Speaker 1: I saw the Patriots drop a bomb on Mike Tomlin

1860
01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:55,599
Speaker 1: Steelers and I saw Case Keenum get waxed by the Eagles.

1861
01:34:55,880 --> 01:34:59,040
Speaker 1: Neither one was competitive. I hope this game is a

1862
01:34:59,040 --> 01:35:05,559
Speaker 1: little more competitive. All right, m hmm, get a better game?

1863
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:13,439
Speaker 1: What was that? What is it? You didn't get the

1864
01:35:13,479 --> 01:35:17,600
Speaker 1: good as Gold Robbie is? Of course, why would you?

1865
01:35:17,880 --> 01:35:25,960
Speaker 1: Why the incomplete drop there just to his gold. That's that,

1866
01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:30,240
Speaker 1: That's what made it really sing Good as Gold Robbie is. Okay, Yeah,

1867
01:35:30,280 --> 01:35:36,759
Speaker 1: that's the podcasting. We'll be back on Tuesday. Uh. Connie

1868
01:35:36,760 --> 01:35:39,439
Speaker 1: Fox will be joining us. We'll get her back uh

1869
01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:42,200
Speaker 1: in the virtual studio, so I'll be nice and then

1870
01:35:42,400 --> 01:35:48,200
Speaker 1: um Thursday, the Big preview of the Championship Sunday, Saturday morning,

1871
01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:51,880
Speaker 1: the NFL Network program, and we go on and on

1872
01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 1: and on anything else, poise not a word. All right,

1873
01:35:59,520 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 1: let's go. Everybody, enjoy your week. I hope you enjoyed

1874
01:36:03,520 --> 01:36:10,840
Speaker 1: the football legendary weekend of action until Tuesday. I know

1875
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:13,080
Speaker 1: you gotta do. He's a coll