Speaker 1: Welcome to tape beds. We have reached the divisional round.
Speaker 1: Baba Shoes and Dan Orlovsky Scott p Oli. Time to
Speaker 1: break down this weekend's games. We're gonna take them in order.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the Saturday games, take a quick break,
Speaker 1: then get to the Sunday games. But looking at the
Speaker 1: weekend as a whole, Guys, we talked about Super wild
Speaker 1: Card weekend in the episode, talked wild Card Weekend and
Speaker 1: come on, I don't know, but you know what, and
Speaker 1: the way that it played out this past week's Super
Speaker 1: is definitely an air quotes because of what's not so Super.
Speaker 1: But the one thing that all of those blowouts gave us,
Speaker 1: I think you can make an argument the Cowboys from
Speaker 1: a talent perspective are probably one of the eight most
Speaker 1: talented teams in the NFL. Although you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know that many of us were surprised by the result
Speaker 1: of their game. But what I love about these matchups
Speaker 1: this weekend, the eight teams that we've got left, we
Speaker 1: have at East six, if not seven. I think of
Speaker 1: the teams that we all would have said moving through
Speaker 1: the season coming into the playoffs are definitely the best
Speaker 1: teams like we didn't get any monumental upsets last weekend.
Speaker 1: We didn't get one seed you know, obviously not one seeds,
Speaker 1: but two seeds or three seeds knocked out. I think
Speaker 1: it sets up this weekend for four games that could
Speaker 1: all be really good because looking at all four of
Speaker 1: these matchups, I don't I don't see a lopsided game
Speaker 1: among this group. And I think the funny part about
Speaker 1: the games on Saturday, and let's start with those. I
Speaker 1: think you've got quarterback matchups where the team that's home
Speaker 1: and the team that's the one seed. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: let's start with Bengals Titans. Like I would certainly if
Speaker 1: I were choosing between the two quarterbacks, take Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: over Ryan Tannehill. I don't know if you guys think
Speaker 1: the game could come down to that. The Titans have
Speaker 1: an identity how they play, They run the football, their
Speaker 1: physical Can they play that way against the bank goals
Speaker 1: and make Bryan Tannehill that we win with you quarterback
Speaker 1: rather than win because of you? Or is Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and be the we win because
Speaker 1: of you and knock out the one seed. Yeah? So
Speaker 1: I think first of all, to answer that question, we
Speaker 1: have to know the health of Derrick kennright and in
Speaker 1: the in the like like the is Derrick Henry sevent
Speaker 1: does Derrick Henry feel like? That's a huge kind of
Speaker 1: domino in this I'm gonna live in the world where
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is at like Okay, I'm just as the
Speaker 1: way things have been trending. You know, I think a
Speaker 1: couple of keys for this this football game, for both teams.
Speaker 1: Number One, if I was Tennessee, You're obviously going to
Speaker 1: live in your world of running your zone scheme. And
Speaker 1: I think the thing that people need to understand with
Speaker 1: the zone scheme, either inside zone or outside zone, is
Speaker 1: I'm committing to running that twenty times over the course
Speaker 1: of a football game. If you win seventeen of those
Speaker 1: snaps on a defense, meaning I get three or four yards,
Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. I need you to not win
Speaker 1: three of them, four of them. That's that's when I
Speaker 1: got you with a twenty five yard run or a
Speaker 1: forty yard run. And then the commitment of doing that
Speaker 1: twenty times. Because the zone scheme, I don't need four
Speaker 1: guys to get out of place, I need one. I
Speaker 1: need one guy to get reached. I need one guy
Speaker 1: to get cut down on the back side, I need
Speaker 1: one linebacker to overplay the play. So that's why I'm
Speaker 1: committed to that zone scheme. And then obviously it allows
Speaker 1: me to utilize my play action pass. So Tennessee is
Speaker 1: gonna do that. I think the more different ways I
Speaker 1: would do this if I was Tennessee, I would look
Speaker 1: at the corners for Cincinnati, who loves to play single
Speaker 1: high safety specifically man, and go all right, well, um
Speaker 1: two is playing good football. Twenty You're gonna get my work,
Speaker 1: Eli Apple. You're gonna I'm gonna go to work on
Speaker 1: Eli Apple if you guys are gonna play sing high
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be shots with a j Brown or
Speaker 1: possession throws with Julio Jones. How successful Tennessee is in
Speaker 1: regards to now offensively, I think is huge. And then
Speaker 1: for Cincinnati offensively, it's gonna all be about how well
Speaker 1: Joe goes pre snap the post, that pre snap the post,
Speaker 1: that pre snap the post. Now, because Tennessee's coverage rotation
Speaker 1: and coverage disguise from what they tell you pre snap
Speaker 1: to what they tell you post snap is star wars
Speaker 1: now a lot of it is zone, but it's still
Speaker 1: you know these zones are are they? They They're chameleons.
Speaker 1: You know, they can look one way and they're very
Speaker 1: different in in in another situation, they change quickly. So
Speaker 1: I think those are like the two keys between both
Speaker 1: of those offenses to have the success that they want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you mentioned it, Um, what world are we
Speaker 1: going to live in with Derrick Henry? And you know,
Speaker 1: after watching Monday Night's game with the Rams and seeing
Speaker 1: Cam Akers come back from an injury that I didn't
Speaker 1: think he had any chance come back and perform, now
Speaker 1: leads me to believe that Derrick Henry right where we're
Speaker 1: seeing players were cover skilled players in particularly recover from
Speaker 1: injuries on a level and in a time speed like
Speaker 1: we've never seen before. So I'm going to live in
Speaker 1: that world. To the other world I'm gonna live in
Speaker 1: is that you know Mike Rabel spent all those years
Speaker 1: together and you know, eight in New England, two in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Something that Mike is really smart. And the
Speaker 1: other thing is he often goes back to some of
Speaker 1: his New England experiences and he knows, as we learned
Speaker 1: in New England, the best way to slow down in
Speaker 1: offense like Joe Burrow is like trying to slow down
Speaker 1: another explosive offense. I'm not going to compare him to
Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, but the Colts back in the day and
Speaker 1: some of those other explosive teams that were faster than
Speaker 1: us and maybe had more skilled players on offense. Is
Speaker 1: your best defense sometimes is your offense keep Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: off the field. So if they've got Derrick Henry, I
Speaker 1: can see them doing a lot of things for ball
Speaker 1: control and also to eat up clock in time of possession. Now,
Speaker 1: the other thing is this interesting is we're now in January,
Speaker 1: as we all know, and I know that Nashville isn't
Speaker 1: the Northeast, but it's also not the southeast, and well
Speaker 1: the deep Southeast, I should say. They play on a
Speaker 1: grass field. They're going to try to mitigate the speed
Speaker 1: of the Bengals, which is outstanding by playing big guy football.
Speaker 1: And to me, this is what I think this game
Speaker 1: is going to turn into. And then what I think
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel is going to try to do. If I
Speaker 1: was Tennessee and trying to mitigate like the the speed
Speaker 1: is so to speak for um Cincinnati's defense. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: all gonna be dependent on how he fishings you are
Speaker 1: on first down because if you get into some of
Speaker 1: those blitz packages that Cincinnati does have, that's when I
Speaker 1: get a little bit concerned with Tennessee. Yeah. Yeah, Tennessee's
Speaker 1: offensive line is a little bit similar to me, like
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis is they're really good in run game, they're
Speaker 1: not that good in past protection, they're not. And Cincinnati's
Speaker 1: blitz packages are really good in the way they move
Speaker 1: Sam Hubbard around and Hendrickson getting one on ones for
Speaker 1: those guys. Like the efficiency that Tennessee is so here.
Speaker 1: Like this is also the challenge for Cincinnati vice versa,
Speaker 1: because everybody always goes, well, we've got to go into
Speaker 1: this game stopping Derrick Henry. Cool, That's exactly where I
Speaker 1: want you as a play caller, because I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: play action play action play action, play action play actions.
Speaker 1: So you know it's gonna be that that back and
Speaker 1: forth of who guesses on first down? Really right? You know, defensively,
Speaker 1: can you can you anticipate playing against play action pass
Speaker 1: so to speak? So um, I think that that that's
Speaker 1: another huge challenge in relation, like staying on the field,
Speaker 1: Scott will be a big deal. And then you know
Speaker 1: I talked about Josie and things pre snap and post snap.
Speaker 1: It's also gonna be fascinating what Tennessee does defensively with
Speaker 1: Jamaar Jamaar Chase. I I don't and I know I
Speaker 1: like to say things that are extremes sometimes, like I
Speaker 1: don't know how many times you could feel okay, just
Speaker 1: putting one cat over there, like one guy. I there's
Speaker 1: just you don't have the human beings did just I
Speaker 1: don't care if it's man or his own, just match
Speaker 1: up against them. It's not a good situation for you. You
Speaker 1: You know, something I kept hearing about us we change
Speaker 1: gears to Chiefs Packers as well, um or I'm sorry
Speaker 1: forty Niners Packers was when the forty Niners beat the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Dan, I think I heard you say this
Speaker 1: on ESPN on Monday morning, that this was like the
Speaker 1: worst possible outcome possibly match up wise for the Packers. Okay,
Speaker 1: so why I'm like, Dan, let's let's let's dive deeper
Speaker 1: into that. Why is this such a bad matchup or
Speaker 1: bad result? You know, if you're a Packers fan, why
Speaker 1: were you rooting so hard for the Cowboys to win
Speaker 1: that game? Why do you not want to see the
Speaker 1: forty Niners. Starting point is it's the teacher versus the mentor.
Speaker 1: You know. You know, Kyle Shanahan taught a lot of
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur, a lot of the things he knows. The
Speaker 1: way to study tape, the way to attack who who
Speaker 1: you are is a defense. Uh, not only your defense,
Speaker 1: but how to attack people within your defense, how to
Speaker 1: attack scheme, the things that give defenses so many headaches.
Speaker 1: You know, so the understanding that that everything that you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of the stuff that you know comes from
Speaker 1: the guy that you're playing against. The overall weakness of
Speaker 1: Green Bay defensively is their ability to play physical at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and stop the outside zone scheme
Speaker 1: when motion is being used. The team that uses motion
Speaker 1: with outside zone scheme more than anybody in the NFL
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty Niners. The second challenge is this,
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, personnel wise, defensively, are not built
Speaker 1: to play against the positionless people on San Francisco's offense.
Speaker 1: If you watch what Kyle does, Kyle will take twenty
Speaker 1: one personnel two backs in one tight end, and one
Speaker 1: of those backs is Kyle us check So he'll call
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel and when that happens, you as a
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator are calling your twenty one personnel defense as
Speaker 1: well personnel wise, and then Kyle is going to give
Speaker 1: you what looks to be eleven personnel formations. He'll put
Speaker 1: use check out as a receiver. So how like that.
Speaker 1: That's a challenge for green Bay that doesn't have versatility
Speaker 1: at the lineback position. They just don't and so you know,
Speaker 1: the how are they going to handle that is a
Speaker 1: huge deal. Or they'll sometimes Bob Scott, they'll they'll go
Speaker 1: in twenty what looks to be twenty two personnel, they'll
Speaker 1: put two tight ends and Deebo Samuel, and you check up,
Speaker 1: how are they treating Debo? Because then they'll go in
Speaker 1: two personnel and it's lined up like ten personnel spread,
Speaker 1: or they'll go and line them up and it looks
Speaker 1: like jumbo goal line. Green Bay does not have the
Speaker 1: personnel flexibility to handle all that stuff, and that's the
Speaker 1: big challenge. And then you know, flipping it up to
Speaker 1: the other side, green Bay's offense versus San Francisco's defense.
Speaker 1: We gotta remember the last time these teams play, we
Speaker 1: needed a once in a generation type of throw from
Speaker 1: Aaron over Fred Warner. The San Francisco's speed in their
Speaker 1: front seven, both burst off the football by their defensive line. Okay,
Speaker 1: Bay runs the zone scheme. What's the number one way
Speaker 1: for me as a zone scheme offense for you to
Speaker 1: ruin my play penetration? It makes everybody on my offense worse.
Speaker 1: The speed and the burst off San Francisco's defensive line
Speaker 1: is is just not a good matchup for their zone schemes.
Speaker 1: So that's a lot in this game. That's a lot
Speaker 1: that I just went on. But it's just not a
Speaker 1: good matchup for them. Yeah, and the key to the
Speaker 1: speed for the forty niners front seven in that group,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see where Nick Bosa is this
Speaker 1: week because he is going to be a key whether
Speaker 1: or not he's there and whether or not he's healthy
Speaker 1: and ready to go. You know, we don't often talk
Speaker 1: about the Shanahan tree, and I'm not talking about the
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan tree. I know you mentioned Kyle Shanahan, but
Speaker 1: right now, with the four teams that are left in
Speaker 1: the NFC. Three of those coaches come from the Mike
Speaker 1: Shanahan I love when you go bald spot, old school, like,
Speaker 1: you know, take me back three decades. That's that's what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Hey, no, Mike in a hand. When
Speaker 1: he was coaching at at Washington, he had I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously Kyle was there. Obviously Sean McVeigh was there, and
Speaker 1: so was La Fleur, Um la Fleur's brother, Matt jet
Speaker 1: Here we go, general general. You know, Mike was there,
Speaker 1: and so to me, Um, You're right, they know a
Speaker 1: lot about one another, they all respect one another, they
Speaker 1: all like one another. These are the kind of competitions
Speaker 1: that I love when it's it's like this is a good,
Speaker 1: good old fashioned backyard family fight at an outing, and
Speaker 1: that's what it's going to be. But you know, everything
Speaker 1: that Dan said I agree with. And to me, you
Speaker 1: know that I love the phrase position list people Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel Samuel is and he is an issue for everyone.
Speaker 1: And you know because like I said, from a personnel
Speaker 1: grouping standpoint, they can't match up. But I don't know
Speaker 1: too many teams that can match up. Because when you
Speaker 1: get into games like this, good defensive coordinators are going
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, when they've got Ebo on the field,
Speaker 1: we are going to make a distinction based on where
Speaker 1: he lines up, what he is. But the bottom line
Speaker 1: is they don't have they may not have the right
Speaker 1: personnel grouping out there, and they're going to be weak
Speaker 1: somewhere in trying to defend what they can do. It's
Speaker 1: a fascinating matchup schematically. One thing I will, obviously as
Speaker 1: kind of the simplistic guy circle back to is and
Speaker 1: Dan talked about the fact that there are moments where
Speaker 1: you need Aaron Rodgers to make a once in a
Speaker 1: generation throw. Guy makes a once in a generation throw
Speaker 1: every week, right like every third down, he makes it
Speaker 1: once at a generation throw. And I actually threw this
Speaker 1: out there on Twitter during the Cowboy game this past week.
Speaker 1: The Jimmy Garoppolo can be such a tragic figure. He
Speaker 1: is the quarterback where everyone that doesn't watch him all
Speaker 1: year will watch a playoff game and we'll be sitting
Speaker 1: there going why did they draft his replacement? Here they
Speaker 1: are in the playoffs. He took them to a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: he seems to win. They're winning again, and the Niners
Speaker 1: fan in the room looks at that guy and says,
Speaker 1: just give a time, just wait and then and think
Speaker 1: about the huge interception that he threw. Again, that was
Speaker 1: that was the spark that could have lit the fuse
Speaker 1: to actually make the comeback happen. I don't think that
Speaker 1: we never get to that last play of that Cowboy
Speaker 1: game on Saturday if not for Jimmy Garoppolo throwing that
Speaker 1: interception that gave the Cowboys hope. He is a quarterback
Speaker 1: that's so often seems to make the mistake that gives
Speaker 1: the other team hope. I've got Aaron Rodgers all of
Speaker 1: those schematic questions being asked. Well, I don't know. I
Speaker 1: would have a hard time seeing Aaron Rodgers the Packers
Speaker 1: losing this game. We'll see how it plays out this week.
Speaker 1: We've got Sunday's matchups to talk about. We've got Rams
Speaker 1: Bucks and we've got Bills Chiefs, Bills Chiefs. How fascinating
Speaker 1: is that game? We're gonna talk about that we come
Speaker 1: back on tape. Its back here on tape, Its Bobo
Speaker 1: Shoes and Dani Orlovsky, Scott Pioli. All Right, Sunday games
Speaker 1: to talk about on the divisional weekend, and let's get
Speaker 1: its start with Rams Bucks and guys. You know, we
Speaker 1: talked about on Tuesday all of the different things that
Speaker 1: the Rams did schematically on defense beyond just beating up
Speaker 1: the front for the Arizona Cardinals. But they confused Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how much they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do to try and confuse Tom Brady if Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is even confusable, if that's a word, because you know,
Speaker 1: I mean he obviously reparates Bards at a totally different level.
Speaker 1: Um Mentally, I don't know what the health situation is
Speaker 1: going to be of Tristan Worth's didn't look good this
Speaker 1: past week. Could that physical matchup be enough to maybe
Speaker 1: determine the outcome of this game? Because if there was
Speaker 1: one team this past week that I thought physically was
Speaker 1: getting beat up and still found a way to win
Speaker 1: the game and lopsided fashion, it was the Bucks. I
Speaker 1: mean they were getting beat up on the defensive line
Speaker 1: or defensive line of the Eagles, their offensive line, Brady
Speaker 1: was getting hit a lot, and they still won. Um
Speaker 1: But having said that, how do we see this game
Speaker 1: playing out? Yeah? I think if their works doesn't play
Speaker 1: that the Bucks can't win this football game. I think
Speaker 1: he's that important. I think he's that important to them
Speaker 1: because if I mean, the Bucks five offensive linemen are
Speaker 1: the best unit in the playoffs, They've got the best
Speaker 1: continuity um. But the Rams are also the defensive line
Speaker 1: that is built very similar to these New Lands Saints.
Speaker 1: They've got plenty of pass rushers and they're plenty physical enough,
Speaker 1: and that I think is that big a deal now
Speaker 1: that the weapons are gone. I here, here's where I
Speaker 1: stand with regards to like what I think are the
Speaker 1: keys for this game. So I think that if I
Speaker 1: were the Los Angeles Rams and Raheemore is their defensive coordinator, who,
Speaker 1: like context, I think should be probably in the head
Speaker 1: coach conversation carousel right now with kind of the adjustments
Speaker 1: that he's made. I'm I'm focusing on Jalen Ramsey versus
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski. I'm gonna give Mike Evans his. Mike is
Speaker 1: going to get his. I'm not going to become obsessed
Speaker 1: like so how they kind of try to match up
Speaker 1: with Gronk is going to be a huge part of that.
Speaker 1: Because right now, all Tampa Bay is doing is living
Speaker 1: in a trips world or a who by two world. Now,
Speaker 1: in the trips world, it's basic. They put Mike Evans
Speaker 1: backside or Grounk at the three. Front side Mike one
Speaker 1: on one, we're gonna work him. Gronk at the three,
Speaker 1: and then it's middlefield open, we're gonna work him or
Speaker 1: in two by two. That's when they move Mike Evans
Speaker 1: around a little bit. Sometimes he's outside, sometimes he's inside.
Speaker 1: So I think how they handle Gronk is going to
Speaker 1: be a huge part of that. But the fact that
Speaker 1: they can probably deploy coverage forced the bowl underneath tackle
Speaker 1: really well and get after tom is is a huge deal.
Speaker 1: And then I think for the Rams offensively, if you
Speaker 1: go back and watch these teams play and this is
Speaker 1: three plus months ago, but it was bombs away, man,
Speaker 1: it was bombs away at this secondary. And if I'm
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh, I want my team to settle into the game.
Speaker 1: But I actually think it's the vice versa of what
Speaker 1: we saw on Monday Night football against the Cardinals. I
Speaker 1: think Sean is going to come out and be crazy
Speaker 1: aggressive at this secondary that you know is is still
Speaker 1: deal with some health issues with Sean Murphy bunting. And
Speaker 1: I also I agree but here here's my question, Dan is,
Speaker 1: after what he saw he's got with cam Akers, do
Speaker 1: you think he maybe comes at him a little bit
Speaker 1: more with the running game. Well, I would say this
Speaker 1: if if it's going to be a running game that
Speaker 1: is built upon like pushing the ball to the edges, yes,
Speaker 1: I just think it's with Veden ask god. I just
Speaker 1: think it's so hard and it's it's kind of ignorant,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. It's kind of like, what
Speaker 1: are we doing? You know? So I think I think
Speaker 1: he's smarter than that. Just a poundaball at him, but
Speaker 1: on the perimeter shirt, I can see that. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then as soon as I think that and say that,
Speaker 1: you know, now that they've got both Devin White and
Speaker 1: Labonte David healthy, you know that becomes a little bit
Speaker 1: different because they can get to the edges maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit quicker. So you know, I want to visit this.
Speaker 1: You haven't mentioned uh your gout Matthew yet, and you
Speaker 1: know there's been a lot of um uncertainty about Matthew
Speaker 1: a lot of people publicly right, and the big thing
Speaker 1: and the weight that was on his shoulders is past
Speaker 1: Monday about you know, he's got to win a playoff game.
Speaker 1: He's just got to do it. And you know, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this. There's so many people that support
Speaker 1: him and love him for all the right reasons. He
Speaker 1: needed to do that, and it was making me think
Speaker 1: of an old Parcels story, and Parcels you say, you know,
Speaker 1: a great trapper doesn't have to go out and tell
Speaker 1: people that he's a great trapper. He doesn't have to
Speaker 1: have people go out and tell the world what a
Speaker 1: great trapper he is. He just shows him the pelts
Speaker 1: on the wall. Matthew finally has one of those pelts,
Speaker 1: and I'm happy for him. I'm excited for him because again,
Speaker 1: he's the kind of person that you want to see
Speaker 1: have success. I didn't like the idea that he had
Speaker 1: been saddled. Well, he puts up, you know, with that
Speaker 1: whole idea that he puts up great numbers, beautiful throwing motion,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. I'm really happy for him that he's
Speaker 1: now going to the divisional round because he has one
Speaker 1: playoff of under his belt and guys, maybe the most
Speaker 1: fascinating matchup of the entire divisional round of the postseason
Speaker 1: his Bills Chiefs. Right, I mean, we talk talking about
Speaker 1: where the Bills offense is right now and how they look.
Speaker 1: All my money, Bobby, take all my money. And you
Speaker 1: know you made an interesting point. Chiefs Steelers this past week,
Speaker 1: final score, final statistics, all the guys that score, the
Speaker 1: avalanche of offense that finally arrived for Kansas City. We
Speaker 1: were almost through the entire first half, and it was
Speaker 1: enough enough in game. I mean it was it was
Speaker 1: basically sooner or later the damn was going to break.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs can't have a sputtering offensive start against this
Speaker 1: team this week because that avalanche for the Bills seems
Speaker 1: to start right from the kickoff. Yeah, So I think
Speaker 1: for Kansas City to win this game, it's got to
Speaker 1: be a Pringle game. If you want, I love bring
Speaker 1: you know what, Actually, I'm not a huge fan of them. Scotty,
Speaker 1: not a big guy, bub not a big chip guy.
Speaker 1: Goldfish cheeses. I'm with um. So the reason I say
Speaker 1: it's gotta be a Pringle game is because I think
Speaker 1: that Buffalo is going to continuously roll their coverage to
Speaker 1: Tyree Hill and Travis Kelsey. That's what they did the
Speaker 1: last time they played. It was very successful. Now, now
Speaker 1: the caveat I have is oftentimes they would roll to
Speaker 1: the side of thirty nine and leave Dradebuts White solo
Speaker 1: on the number three receiver, very Durrell rievous ish in
Speaker 1: the thought process. You know something that that Patriots and
Speaker 1: the Jets used to do with him, So I think
Speaker 1: that it's they've they've really gotta get a a an
Speaker 1: impact from him when it comes to that. I think
Speaker 1: Buffalo's run defense is so disciplined nowadays, and when they
Speaker 1: play in spread run games, they don't play smash mouth
Speaker 1: run football Kansas City, they play spread run game offensively,
Speaker 1: So I think that plays into Buffalo's hands defensively. I
Speaker 1: think that the Orlando Brown is going to have to
Speaker 1: play better football. Wiley is going to have to play
Speaker 1: better football because the edges, even against Pittsburgh, we're getting tight.
Speaker 1: And I think that the pass rushers for Buffalo, when
Speaker 1: you're playing that coverage that's gonna force Patrick just to
Speaker 1: hold it for a second or two has got to
Speaker 1: be big. And then for Buffalo offensively, you know the
Speaker 1: my initial reaction as well, you don't want to play
Speaker 1: man coverage against Buffalo offensively because you don't have the
Speaker 1: Cats to cover them, and then Josh Allen's running ability.
Speaker 1: But Steve Spagnolo, who's a tremendous defensive mind, is going
Speaker 1: to play man coverage. That's just who he is and
Speaker 1: who he believes that they're gonna be. So how well
Speaker 1: do they do kind of not not just playing man coverage,
Speaker 1: but playing in the right positioning of their man coverage
Speaker 1: I think is going to be paramount. Are you supposed
Speaker 1: to be inside leverage and you gotta keep inside leverage
Speaker 1: bub Are you supposed to be outside leverage the funnel
Speaker 1: with cats somewhere to extra help, then you gotta play
Speaker 1: outside leverage to funnel and extra help. Uh. That that
Speaker 1: is for me the huge key for Kansas City defensively
Speaker 1: this game. Uh yeah, this is one of those games
Speaker 1: that's happening during the playoffs that could be a super
Speaker 1: Bowl matchup because it's quite possibly the two best teams
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. And I know Packers fans
Speaker 1: are gonna get mad and Rams fans are gonna get mad.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that to be disrespectful. I'd say they
Speaker 1: could be, but this is this is one heck of
Speaker 1: a matchup. And what's interesting to me watching Buffalo again
Speaker 1: through the month of December, watching them last week against
Speaker 1: the Patriots, watching the confidence this team believes. I think
Speaker 1: they went into this season thinking they were gonna be
Speaker 1: a good team, and everyone was telling them they we're
Speaker 1: gonna be a good team. They're starting to smell themselves
Speaker 1: a little bit, but they didn't have the facts for themselves.
Speaker 1: I'm watching. We've seen this transition of the of the
Speaker 1: personality and the outgoing personality of Josh Allen to me
Speaker 1: has been fascinating, and I mean all in a good
Speaker 1: way because his confidence is so real right now and
Speaker 1: it's there yet he's kept this humility again. I'm finding
Speaker 1: him to be one more fascinating players in the NFL
Speaker 1: right now. But this is a Buffalo team that has
Speaker 1: genuine conference. They just beat the Patriots twice that they
Speaker 1: were the king of the Mountain. They know now that
Speaker 1: they are a good football team. They believe that they're
Speaker 1: a good football team again. I think we've seen the
Speaker 1: growth and the the evolution of Sean McDermott, their head coach,
Speaker 1: since that last you know, since that first Patriots game,
Speaker 1: And to me, we talk about you know, the master
Speaker 1: versus the student and or the teacher versus the student.
Speaker 1: And you know, this is Sean McDermott going against Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: who he cut his teeth coaching and learning under. And
Speaker 1: to me, this is gonna be one heck of a
Speaker 1: matchup for so many reasons. You know, there's one crowd
Speaker 1: to a couple of crowds, but at the top of
Speaker 1: the list of crowd that I think is as impactful
Speaker 1: in the first five to seven minutes of a game
Speaker 1: as any in the National Football League, and that's Kansas City. Yet. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I know it's just that, you know, sometimes there's an
Speaker 1: alley oop and sometimes there's gotta slam at home and
Speaker 1: I think that was well executed. Uh, do you do
Speaker 1: something strategically if you're Buffalo? Do you take a risk early?
Speaker 1: Do you take a shot? Do you do anything to
Speaker 1: try and see if you can maybe schematically do something
Speaker 1: that might be a little on the edge offensively, defensively, whatever,
Speaker 1: to see if you can make a big play early,
Speaker 1: knowing that if you take that crowd out of it early,
Speaker 1: that could be a big advantage. If this was me,
Speaker 1: I don't mind being aggressive. I'm certainly don't think I
Speaker 1: have to be reckless. You know what, I'm saying like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I've got a really good football team,
Speaker 1: and I feel my football team has been tested. The
Speaker 1: guys that are important to us have been tested over
Speaker 1: the last two years. We're ready, and candidly, I think
Speaker 1: Buffalo is probably a better team. I think if both
Speaker 1: of these teams play their a game, Buffalo is a
Speaker 1: better foot ball team. Um. But I don't feel like
Speaker 1: I have to go out and be conscious of taking
Speaker 1: the crowd out of it, Bobby. I don't want to
Speaker 1: do anything to give the crowd momentum. You know. That's
Speaker 1: what Gary Kubiak used to always say to us when
Speaker 1: we would go on the road to a place like
Speaker 1: Indie and whatnot. We gotta do everything we can to
Speaker 1: make sure we don't give the crowd stuff early. You
Speaker 1: know that that that pass rushing, that crowd early stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's not necessarily of taking it out, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: it's just making sure that we're not giving them anything
Speaker 1: to start to get absolutely dominant and raucous about Here's
Speaker 1: what I'd say. I don't think you can no matter
Speaker 1: what you do early in a game against the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs in Arrowhead. I'll say this, I don't think
Speaker 1: you can take their team out of the game or
Speaker 1: get them out of the game. They are gonna come
Speaker 1: for sixty minutes. And the truth is you can't take
Speaker 1: the Kansas City fans out of the game. There's nothing
Speaker 1: that you can do early in a game that's gonna
Speaker 1: take those fans out of the game or get them
Speaker 1: distracted or get the Trust me. You know, I've seen
Speaker 1: a heck, I've had to go against me while I
Speaker 1: was working there, But you can't take the Kansas City
Speaker 1: crowd out of a game. And no matter how much
Speaker 1: early success you have, they are um, they are special. Well,
Speaker 1: we're back on Tuesday to look at how all the
Speaker 1: games played out and we will be set with conference
Speaker 1: championship matchups to talk about. Please rate, please subscribe, find
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