WEBVTT - Divisional Round Preview: Titans plan vs Bengals, Bad matchup for Packers, Rams will be aggressive, Bills visit the Chiefs 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:07.400 Welcome to tape beds. We have reached the divisional round. 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:10.039 Baba Shoes and Dan Orlovsky Scott p Oli. Time to 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.440 break down this weekend's games. We're gonna take them in order. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.080 We're gonna start with the Saturday games, take a quick break, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:18.680 then get to the Sunday games. But looking at the 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.440 weekend as a whole, Guys, we talked about Super wild 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:29.520 Card weekend in the episode, talked wild Card Weekend and 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.760 come on, I don't know, but you know what, and 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.840 the way that it played out this past week's Super 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.040 is definitely an air quotes because of what's not so Super. 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:42.519 But the one thing that all of those blowouts gave us, 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.279 I think you can make an argument the Cowboys from 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.440 a talent perspective are probably one of the eight most 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:51.920 talented teams in the NFL. Although you know, I don't 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.680 know that many of us were surprised by the result 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.600 of their game. But what I love about these matchups 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.600 this weekend, the eight teams that we've got left, we 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.520 have at East six, if not seven. I think of 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.440 the teams that we all would have said moving through 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.480 the season coming into the playoffs are definitely the best 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:13.160 teams like we didn't get any monumental upsets last weekend. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.479 We didn't get one seed you know, obviously not one seeds, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:18.559 but two seeds or three seeds knocked out. I think 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.880 it sets up this weekend for four games that could 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.280 all be really good because looking at all four of 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.959 these matchups, I don't I don't see a lopsided game 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.080 among this group. And I think the funny part about 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.959 the games on Saturday, and let's start with those. I 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.479 think you've got quarterback matchups where the team that's home 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.440 and the team that's the one seed. Um, you know, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.440 let's start with Bengals Titans. Like I would certainly if 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.919 I were choosing between the two quarterbacks, take Joe Burrow 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.760 over Ryan Tannehill. I don't know if you guys think 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.600 the game could come down to that. The Titans have 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:57.560 an identity how they play, They run the football, their 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:00.320 physical Can they play that way against the bank goals 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.480 and make Bryan Tannehill that we win with you quarterback 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.680 rather than win because of you? Or is Joe Burrow 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.120 gonna go out there and be the we win because 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.920 of you and knock out the one seed. Yeah? So 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.680 I think first of all, to answer that question, we 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.560 have to know the health of Derrick kennright and in 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:18.200 the in the like like the is Derrick Henry sevent 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.440 does Derrick Henry feel like? That's a huge kind of 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.520 domino in this I'm gonna live in the world where 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.920 Derrick Henry is at like Okay, I'm just as the 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.240 way things have been trending. You know, I think a 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.359 couple of keys for this this football game, for both teams. 0:02:33.440 --> 0:02:37.560 Number One, if I was Tennessee, You're obviously going to 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.360 live in your world of running your zone scheme. And 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.480 I think the thing that people need to understand with 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:46.440 the zone scheme, either inside zone or outside zone, is 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.320 I'm committing to running that twenty times over the course 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.120 of a football game. If you win seventeen of those 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.680 snaps on a defense, meaning I get three or four yards, 0:02:57.240 --> 0:02:59.880 I'm cool with that. I need you to not win 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.480 three of them, four of them. That's that's when I 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.840 got you with a twenty five yard run or a 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:09.800 forty yard run. And then the commitment of doing that 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.679 twenty times. Because the zone scheme, I don't need four 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.920 guys to get out of place, I need one. I 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.399 need one guy to get reached. I need one guy 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.399 to get cut down on the back side, I need 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.600 one linebacker to overplay the play. So that's why I'm 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.440 committed to that zone scheme. And then obviously it allows 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.799 me to utilize my play action pass. So Tennessee is 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:32.720 gonna do that. I think the more different ways I 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.520 would do this if I was Tennessee, I would look 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.480 at the corners for Cincinnati, who loves to play single 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.080 high safety specifically man, and go all right, well, um 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.120 two is playing good football. Twenty You're gonna get my work, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.480 Eli Apple. You're gonna I'm gonna go to work on 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.240 Eli Apple if you guys are gonna play sing high 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.360 and it's gonna be shots with a j Brown or 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.360 possession throws with Julio Jones. How successful Tennessee is in 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.680 regards to now offensively, I think is huge. And then 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.880 for Cincinnati offensively, it's gonna all be about how well 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.280 Joe goes pre snap the post, that pre snap the post, 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:11.400 that pre snap the post. Now, because Tennessee's coverage rotation 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:15.680 and coverage disguise from what they tell you pre snap 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.760 to what they tell you post snap is star wars 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.479 now a lot of it is zone, but it's still 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.600 you know these zones are are they? They They're chameleons. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:28.479 You know, they can look one way and they're very 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.680 different in in in another situation, they change quickly. So 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.960 I think those are like the two keys between both 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.160 of those offenses to have the success that they want. Yeah, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.560 you know you mentioned it, Um, what world are we 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.880 going to live in with Derrick Henry? And you know, 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:50.120 after watching Monday Night's game with the Rams and seeing 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.479 Cam Akers come back from an injury that I didn't 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.120 think he had any chance come back and perform, now 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.080 leads me to believe that Derrick Henry right where we're 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:02.440 seeing players were cover skilled players in particularly recover from 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.880 injuries on a level and in a time speed like 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.159 we've never seen before. So I'm going to live in 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.440 that world. To the other world I'm gonna live in 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.120 is that you know Mike Rabel spent all those years 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.800 together and you know, eight in New England, two in 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.080 Kansas City. Something that Mike is really smart. And the 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.400 other thing is he often goes back to some of 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.960 his New England experiences and he knows, as we learned 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.520 in New England, the best way to slow down in 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.919 offense like Joe Burrow is like trying to slow down 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:36.000 another explosive offense. I'm not going to compare him to 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.000 Peyton Manning, but the Colts back in the day and 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.800 some of those other explosive teams that were faster than 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.760 us and maybe had more skilled players on offense. Is 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.520 your best defense sometimes is your offense keep Joe Burrow 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.120 off the field. So if they've got Derrick Henry, I 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.120 can see them doing a lot of things for ball 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:57.880 control and also to eat up clock in time of possession. Now, 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.000 the other thing is this interesting is we're now in January, 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.600 as we all know, and I know that Nashville isn't 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:09.400 the Northeast, but it's also not the southeast, and well 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.279 the deep Southeast, I should say. They play on a 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.039 grass field. They're going to try to mitigate the speed 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:20.680 of the Bengals, which is outstanding by playing big guy football. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.440 And to me, this is what I think this game 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:23.840 is going to turn into. And then what I think 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.360 Mike Vrabel is going to try to do. If I 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.960 was Tennessee and trying to mitigate like the the speed 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.479 is so to speak for um Cincinnati's defense. Yeah, it's 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.200 all gonna be dependent on how he fishings you are 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.520 on first down because if you get into some of 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.159 those blitz packages that Cincinnati does have, that's when I 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.200 get a little bit concerned with Tennessee. Yeah. Yeah, Tennessee's 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.440 offensive line is a little bit similar to me, like 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.240 to Indianapolis is they're really good in run game, they're 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:57.800 not that good in past protection, they're not. And Cincinnati's 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.080 blitz packages are really good in the way they move 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.599 Sam Hubbard around and Hendrickson getting one on ones for 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.280 those guys. Like the efficiency that Tennessee is so here. 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.160 Like this is also the challenge for Cincinnati vice versa, 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.880 because everybody always goes, well, we've got to go into 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:18.200 this game stopping Derrick Henry. Cool, That's exactly where I 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.040 want you as a play caller, because I'm gonna just 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.520 play action play action play action, play action play actions. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.120 So you know it's gonna be that that back and 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.920 forth of who guesses on first down? Really right? You know, defensively, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.480 can you can you anticipate playing against play action pass 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.400 so to speak? So um, I think that that that's 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.040 another huge challenge in relation, like staying on the field, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.840 Scott will be a big deal. And then you know 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.600 I talked about Josie and things pre snap and post snap. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:46.880 It's also gonna be fascinating what Tennessee does defensively with 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.080 Jamaar Jamaar Chase. I I don't and I know I 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.560 like to say things that are extremes sometimes, like I 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.760 don't know how many times you could feel okay, just 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.000 putting one cat over there, like one guy. I there's 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.640 just you don't have the human beings did just I 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.320 don't care if it's man or his own, just match 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.120 up against them. It's not a good situation for you. You 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:07.920 You know, something I kept hearing about us we change 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.640 gears to Chiefs Packers as well, um or I'm sorry 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.720 forty Niners Packers was when the forty Niners beat the 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.680 Cowboys and Dan, I think I heard you say this 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:18.640 on ESPN on Monday morning, that this was like the 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.800 worst possible outcome possibly match up wise for the Packers. Okay, 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:25.480 so why I'm like, Dan, let's let's let's dive deeper 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:28.080 into that. Why is this such a bad matchup or 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:31.000 bad result? You know, if you're a Packers fan, why 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.959 were you rooting so hard for the Cowboys to win 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.760 that game? Why do you not want to see the 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.400 forty Niners. Starting point is it's the teacher versus the mentor. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.320 You know. You know, Kyle Shanahan taught a lot of 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.840 Matt Lafleur, a lot of the things he knows. The 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.640 way to study tape, the way to attack who who 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.679 you are is a defense. Uh, not only your defense, 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.880 but how to attack people within your defense, how to 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:55.760 attack scheme, the things that give defenses so many headaches. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.800 You know, so the understanding that that everything that you know, 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:01.920 a lot of the stuff that you know comes from 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:06.120 the guy that you're playing against. The overall weakness of 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.679 Green Bay defensively is their ability to play physical at 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.600 the line of scrimmage and stop the outside zone scheme 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:18.560 when motion is being used. The team that uses motion 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.840 with outside zone scheme more than anybody in the NFL 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.600 the San Francisco forty Niners. The second challenge is this, 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:30.480 the Green Bay Packers, personnel wise, defensively, are not built 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:35.240 to play against the positionless people on San Francisco's offense. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.920 If you watch what Kyle does, Kyle will take twenty 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.520 one personnel two backs in one tight end, and one 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.160 of those backs is Kyle us check So he'll call 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:47.040 twenty one personnel and when that happens, you as a 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.280 defensive coordinator are calling your twenty one personnel defense as 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.440 well personnel wise, and then Kyle is going to give 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:58.280 you what looks to be eleven personnel formations. He'll put 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:02.520 use check out as a receiver. So how like that. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.520 That's a challenge for green Bay that doesn't have versatility 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:09.160 at the lineback position. They just don't and so you know, 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.679 the how are they going to handle that is a 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.080 huge deal. Or they'll sometimes Bob Scott, they'll they'll go 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.240 in twenty what looks to be twenty two personnel, they'll 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:22.600 put two tight ends and Deebo Samuel, and you check up, 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:25.040 how are they treating Debo? Because then they'll go in 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.760 two personnel and it's lined up like ten personnel spread, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.800 or they'll go and line them up and it looks 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.120 like jumbo goal line. Green Bay does not have the 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.760 personnel flexibility to handle all that stuff, and that's the 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.640 big challenge. And then you know, flipping it up to 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:43.160 the other side, green Bay's offense versus San Francisco's defense. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.240 We gotta remember the last time these teams play, we 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.439 needed a once in a generation type of throw from 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:54.960 Aaron over Fred Warner. The San Francisco's speed in their 0:10:55.040 --> 0:11:00.000 front seven, both burst off the football by their defensive line. Okay, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.400 Bay runs the zone scheme. What's the number one way 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.520 for me as a zone scheme offense for you to 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:11.280 ruin my play penetration? It makes everybody on my offense worse. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.200 The speed and the burst off San Francisco's defensive line 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.600 is is just not a good matchup for their zone schemes. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.199 So that's a lot in this game. That's a lot 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:22.800 that I just went on. But it's just not a 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.440 good matchup for them. Yeah, and the key to the 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.920 speed for the forty niners front seven in that group, 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.240 it'll be interesting to see where Nick Bosa is this 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.160 week because he is going to be a key whether 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.400 or not he's there and whether or not he's healthy 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.000 and ready to go. You know, we don't often talk 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.719 about the Shanahan tree, and I'm not talking about the 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.320 Kyle Shanahan tree. I know you mentioned Kyle Shanahan, but 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.320 right now, with the four teams that are left in 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.320 the NFC. Three of those coaches come from the Mike 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.520 Shanahan I love when you go bald spot, old school, like, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.800 you know, take me back three decades. That's that's what 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.600 I'm talking about. Hey, no, Mike in a hand. When 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.400 he was coaching at at Washington, he had I mean, 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:09.000 obviously Kyle was there. Obviously Sean McVeigh was there, and 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.160 so was La Fleur, Um la Fleur's brother, Matt jet 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.200 Here we go, general general. You know, Mike was there, 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:20.240 and so to me, Um, You're right, they know a 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.800 lot about one another, they all respect one another, they 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.320 all like one another. These are the kind of competitions 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.240 that I love when it's it's like this is a good, 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.840 good old fashioned backyard family fight at an outing, and 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.160 that's what it's going to be. But you know, everything 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.240 that Dan said I agree with. And to me, you 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.840 know that I love the phrase position list people Deebo 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.160 Samuel Samuel is and he is an issue for everyone. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.440 And you know because like I said, from a personnel 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.080 grouping standpoint, they can't match up. But I don't know 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.320 too many teams that can match up. Because when you 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:57.760 get into games like this, good defensive coordinators are going 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.080 to say, Okay, when they've got Ebo on the field, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:04.760 we are going to make a distinction based on where 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.480 he lines up, what he is. But the bottom line 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.840 is they don't have they may not have the right 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:12.959 personnel grouping out there, and they're going to be weak 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.839 somewhere in trying to defend what they can do. It's 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:21.120 a fascinating matchup schematically. One thing I will, obviously as 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.480 kind of the simplistic guy circle back to is and 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.760 Dan talked about the fact that there are moments where 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.360 you need Aaron Rodgers to make a once in a 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.160 generation throw. Guy makes a once in a generation throw 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.559 every week, right like every third down, he makes it 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.360 once at a generation throw. And I actually threw this 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.760 out there on Twitter during the Cowboy game this past week. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.400 The Jimmy Garoppolo can be such a tragic figure. He 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.640 is the quarterback where everyone that doesn't watch him all 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.720 year will watch a playoff game and we'll be sitting 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.800 there going why did they draft his replacement? Here they 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.240 are in the playoffs. He took them to a super Bowl, 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:59.000 he seems to win. They're winning again, and the Niners 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.800 fan in the room looks at that guy and says, 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.480 just give a time, just wait and then and think 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.720 about the huge interception that he threw. Again, that was 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.960 that was the spark that could have lit the fuse 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.360 to actually make the comeback happen. I don't think that 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.280 we never get to that last play of that Cowboy 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.680 game on Saturday if not for Jimmy Garoppolo throwing that 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.640 interception that gave the Cowboys hope. He is a quarterback 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.680 that's so often seems to make the mistake that gives 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.520 the other team hope. I've got Aaron Rodgers all of 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.920 those schematic questions being asked. Well, I don't know. I 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:34.320 would have a hard time seeing Aaron Rodgers the Packers 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.800 losing this game. We'll see how it plays out this week. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.560 We've got Sunday's matchups to talk about. We've got Rams 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.960 Bucks and we've got Bills Chiefs, Bills Chiefs. How fascinating 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:44.920 is that game? We're gonna talk about that we come 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:50.880 back on tape. Its back here on tape, Its Bobo 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.800 Shoes and Dani Orlovsky, Scott Pioli. All Right, Sunday games 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.760 to talk about on the divisional weekend, and let's get 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.640 its start with Rams Bucks and guys. You know, we 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.800 talked about on Tuesday all of the different things that 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.920 the Rams did schematically on defense beyond just beating up 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.600 the front for the Arizona Cardinals. But they confused Kyler Murray. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:12.480 I mean, I don't know how much they're gonna have 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.360 to do to try and confuse Tom Brady if Tom 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.640 Brady is even confusable, if that's a word, because you know, 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:21.960 I mean he obviously reparates Bards at a totally different level. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.200 Um Mentally, I don't know what the health situation is 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.600 going to be of Tristan Worth's didn't look good this 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:34.120 past week. Could that physical matchup be enough to maybe 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.880 determine the outcome of this game? Because if there was 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.680 one team this past week that I thought physically was 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.640 getting beat up and still found a way to win 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.480 the game and lopsided fashion, it was the Bucks. I 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.400 mean they were getting beat up on the defensive line 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.960 or defensive line of the Eagles, their offensive line, Brady 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.560 was getting hit a lot, and they still won. Um 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.400 But having said that, how do we see this game 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.360 playing out? Yeah? I think if their works doesn't play 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.200 that the Bucks can't win this football game. I think 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.960 he's that important. I think he's that important to them 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:06.760 because if I mean, the Bucks five offensive linemen are 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.960 the best unit in the playoffs, They've got the best 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.240 continuity um. But the Rams are also the defensive line 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.320 that is built very similar to these New Lands Saints. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.800 They've got plenty of pass rushers and they're plenty physical enough, 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.680 and that I think is that big a deal now 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.840 that the weapons are gone. I here, here's where I 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.040 stand with regards to like what I think are the 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.680 keys for this game. So I think that if I 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.400 were the Los Angeles Rams and Raheemore is their defensive coordinator, who, 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.480 like context, I think should be probably in the head 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.640 coach conversation carousel right now with kind of the adjustments 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:44.400 that he's made. I'm I'm focusing on Jalen Ramsey versus 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.000 Rob Gronkowski. I'm gonna give Mike Evans his. Mike is 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.040 going to get his. I'm not going to become obsessed 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:53.440 like so how they kind of try to match up 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.600 with Gronk is going to be a huge part of that. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.320 Because right now, all Tampa Bay is doing is living 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.000 in a trips world or a who by two world. Now, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.440 in the trips world, it's basic. They put Mike Evans 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.320 backside or Grounk at the three. Front side Mike one 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.240 on one, we're gonna work him. Gronk at the three, 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.720 and then it's middlefield open, we're gonna work him or 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:12.879 in two by two. That's when they move Mike Evans 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.480 around a little bit. Sometimes he's outside, sometimes he's inside. 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:17.960 So I think how they handle Gronk is going to 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.560 be a huge part of that. But the fact that 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:25.240 they can probably deploy coverage forced the bowl underneath tackle 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:29.120 really well and get after tom is is a huge deal. 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.040 And then I think for the Rams offensively, if you 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.480 go back and watch these teams play and this is 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.000 three plus months ago, but it was bombs away, man, 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.560 it was bombs away at this secondary. And if I'm 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.119 Sean McVeigh, I want my team to settle into the game. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.560 But I actually think it's the vice versa of what 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.520 we saw on Monday Night football against the Cardinals. I 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.320 think Sean is going to come out and be crazy 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.600 aggressive at this secondary that you know is is still 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:03.080 deal with some health issues with Sean Murphy bunting. And 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:07.639 I also I agree but here here's my question, Dan is, 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:10.760 after what he saw he's got with cam Akers, do 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.760 you think he maybe comes at him a little bit 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.680 more with the running game. Well, I would say this 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.159 if if it's going to be a running game that 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.600 is built upon like pushing the ball to the edges, yes, 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.239 I just think it's with Veden ask god. I just 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.000 think it's so hard and it's it's kind of ignorant, 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:31.560 to be honest with you. It's kind of like, what 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.720 are we doing? You know? So I think I think 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.159 he's smarter than that. Just a poundaball at him, but 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.800 on the perimeter shirt, I can see that. Yeah. And 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.480 then as soon as I think that and say that, 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.280 you know, now that they've got both Devin White and 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.679 Labonte David healthy, you know that becomes a little bit 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.440 different because they can get to the edges maybe a 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:51.359 little bit quicker. So you know, I want to visit this. 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:56.439 You haven't mentioned uh your gout Matthew yet, and you 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.879 know there's been a lot of um uncertainty about Matthew 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.040 a lot of people publicly right, and the big thing 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.280 and the weight that was on his shoulders is past 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:09.600 Monday about you know, he's got to win a playoff game. 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.760 He's just got to do it. And you know, I 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.040 was thinking about this. There's so many people that support 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.800 him and love him for all the right reasons. He 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:20.960 needed to do that, and it was making me think 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.399 of an old Parcels story, and Parcels you say, you know, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.560 a great trapper doesn't have to go out and tell 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.720 people that he's a great trapper. He doesn't have to 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:31.480 have people go out and tell the world what a 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.080 great trapper he is. He just shows him the pelts 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.399 on the wall. Matthew finally has one of those pelts, 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.880 and I'm happy for him. I'm excited for him because again, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.880 he's the kind of person that you want to see 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:46.479 have success. I didn't like the idea that he had 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.960 been saddled. Well, he puts up, you know, with that 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.920 whole idea that he puts up great numbers, beautiful throwing motion, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.000 all that stuff. I'm really happy for him that he's 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.440 now going to the divisional round because he has one 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.520 playoff of under his belt and guys, maybe the most 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:06.840 fascinating matchup of the entire divisional round of the postseason 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.879 his Bills Chiefs. Right, I mean, we talk talking about 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.760 where the Bills offense is right now and how they look. 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:17.200 All my money, Bobby, take all my money. And you 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.280 know you made an interesting point. Chiefs Steelers this past week, 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.159 final score, final statistics, all the guys that score, the 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.239 avalanche of offense that finally arrived for Kansas City. We 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.720 were almost through the entire first half, and it was 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.480 enough enough in game. I mean it was it was 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:36.959 basically sooner or later the damn was going to break. 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:42.160 The Chiefs can't have a sputtering offensive start against this 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.800 team this week because that avalanche for the Bills seems 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:49.600 to start right from the kickoff. Yeah, So I think 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.840 for Kansas City to win this game, it's got to 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:56.040 be a Pringle game. If you want, I love bring 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.280 you know what, Actually, I'm not a huge fan of them. Scotty, 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:00.960 not a big guy, bub not a big chip guy. 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.800