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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL podcast as it missed the playoffs

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Speaker 1: in over ten years. Iron Men from the Chris Westling

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Speaker 1: podcast studio. It's around the NFL. If you if I

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Speaker 1: sound intense, if I sound especially focused, it's because it's

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Speaker 1: the divisional playoffs. Recap app Dan hanss Gregg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. So we talk about that this is the

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Speaker 1: show about football, but with just a little bit of mirth.

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Speaker 1: That's the touch. No mirth today, It's all football. This

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Speaker 1: is serious. That's the way Gregor, like said, could take

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Speaker 1: the mirth part out, take anything having to not do

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Speaker 1: with football out of the show, cornels into data analytics.

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Speaker 1: Should he have gone for it? Should he have punted?

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Speaker 1: That's what I want to talk about for the next

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Speaker 1: forty four minutes. We we actually need a little like

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Speaker 1: extra mirth because there weren't quite as many crazy game

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Speaker 1: situations as a normal division around. Speaking as a spoiled

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Speaker 1: little football baby here as we um not a NEPO

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Speaker 1: baby though, as we hyped up heading into the weekend,

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Speaker 1: this is traditionally the best weekend of football, and we

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Speaker 1: saw they were exciting kind of outcomes that came out

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Speaker 1: of this let's say, for instance, we're gonna get to

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Speaker 1: it in just a minute, Joe Burrow looking like a

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Speaker 1: man possessed with one goal in mind that he will

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Speaker 1: not be stopped, the Niners defense flexing on a you know,

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Speaker 1: after all the offensive flexing in recent weeks, Like we

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Speaker 1: have four big time Super Bowl worthy teams playing next weekend.

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Speaker 1: But to Greg's point, Mark, maybe the games at not

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Speaker 1: at the level we expected suspense wise. I I don't

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Speaker 1: always mean to come against like the you're the two

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Speaker 1: need these games to be the I don't need it

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Speaker 1: to the best we can because what I like about

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Speaker 1: it is the four best teams won absolutely. And there's

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Speaker 1: been a couple a f C NFC title game scenarios

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Speaker 1: someone surged into the place where they didn't totally belong.

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Speaker 1: I think these four teams completely belong. I thought Niners

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Speaker 1: Cowboys was an incredible my kind of game, and I

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Speaker 1: kind of like seeing a team like the Bengals just

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Speaker 1: drop the hammer they did and basically announced who they are.

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Speaker 1: I mean, So there's different ways to evaluate it as

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Speaker 1: a quality or non quality product. We didn't We didn't

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Speaker 1: know that you really like that last game because you

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Speaker 1: didn't watch it with us. We were in the theater,

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Speaker 1: just me and Greggy. I'm sorry to missing it, Absolutely

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Speaker 1: excited about we kept. I find that the way to

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Speaker 1: keep the show the freshest to come in out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: Now and speaking. It's true because if when he's in

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Speaker 1: the film room so many Mark takes, it's just spoke.

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Speaker 1: It's more that I'm hearing everyone else's takes the entire time,

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Speaker 1: so I've not had to I'm coming in completely fresh.

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Speaker 1: All right. Well that's another way to look at it.

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Speaker 1: And now we're going to dig into all the games,

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Speaker 1: and why don't we start with what I think was

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Speaker 1: even though it didn't end as like a barn burner,

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Speaker 1: what felt like the most important game of the week,

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Speaker 1: the one that everyone had circle Bengals bills from Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: Let's go shotgun staff short dropped by Burrow, the pressure

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Speaker 1: comes from the left. He throw come on, Chase straight

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Speaker 1: the end zone. So why would we pick the first

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Speaker 1: real highlight of the game, the first touchdown, because that

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Speaker 1: kind of was the game. The Cincinnati Bengals went to

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and made the Bills look like a middling outfit

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Speaker 1: to ten win. Joe Burrow connected three touchdown passes and

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati defense give it up for Captain lou who

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Speaker 1: should be getting head coach in or but he's not.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely made life hell for Josh Allen and company and

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Speaker 1: Greggy at Cincinnati. Back to the a f C title game,

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Speaker 1: marks your point at the top of the show. Last

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Speaker 1: year it was Cincinnati. They were the team that stormed

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Speaker 1: a game in Championship Weekend. Uh. This time it's a

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Speaker 1: different field, Sincinni. They feel like a powerhouse, Greggy that

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Speaker 1: the early morning slot where our friend Chris Wesleyan would

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Speaker 1: knew what was gonna happen in a painful way. To

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Speaker 1: first quarter to your point, a hundred sixty five yards

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Speaker 1: prove it today. I thought that too. I thought this

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Speaker 1: Chase was brilliant and in the end, like I know,

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Speaker 1: the Bills they're at home they were presumed all year

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Speaker 1: want to talk about different motivations, what teams use. They

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Speaker 1: weren't happy after the Damar Hamlin episode about how things

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Speaker 1: and I think they've used that as motivation. Here is

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Speaker 1: very topic. For everyone talking about a neutral AFC championship game,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo was certainly worse in terms of their run blocking

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Speaker 1: gotta put Joe Burrow at number two. Now Allen's at

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Speaker 1: Joe Burrow was today, It's like he is that guy.

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Speaker 1: He's already arrived thirty thirty first downs in this game,

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Speaker 1: had given Jamar Chase that touchdown. Is also that that

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Speaker 1: it should have been really with Burrow having three touchdown

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Speaker 1: And I don't want us to lose the big picture

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Speaker 1: their building, and Tony Romo, um uh you know calling

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Speaker 1: key players. Greggy maybe the most important figure in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: the presumptive m v P, had to play through a

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Speaker 1: high ankle sprain. But he would not be denied or

431
00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of a Chris Berman set up there

432
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Speaker 1: to the highlight homes again, that right ankle is the

433
00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 1: one that's bothering him, that's in front of the laft

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00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 1: feat stagger. Mahomes now steps up in the pocket, throws

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Speaker 1: lightning wide open back of the end zone, touchdown Terence

436
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 1: City Mark Quez he scantling on a six yard touchdown,

437
00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 1: but Mahomes paid the price. State in the pocket and

438
00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 1: a jump throw on that bad right ankle. Patrick Mahomes

439
00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:30,240
Speaker 1: on one good leg got it done. Mitch Holtis with

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Speaker 1: the call w d A F Mahomes after suffering that

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00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 1: high ankle, spraying through for a hundred ninety five yards

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Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. He finished with the second, capping of

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Speaker 1: seventy five yard drive late in the fourth quarter. It

444
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Speaker 1: allowed the Chiefs to get past the Jaguars an twenty win.

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Speaker 1: My goodness, the Chiefs during the ABC title game for

446
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:55,760
Speaker 1: the fifth straight year and Mark Sessler obviously Mahomes his

447
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:59,600
Speaker 1: health is a major question mark going forward. We expect

448
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 1: him to play, but what level Patrick Mahomes will we

449
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 1: get next week? That remains to be seen. I mean,

450
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Speaker 1: if you want to take him at his word, he

451
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,400
Speaker 1: basically vowed that he'd play, and I mean, I thought.

452
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Speaker 1: One thing that I do love about Mahomes is that

453
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,520
Speaker 1: his passion is not false. I think we feel that

454
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 1: way with some athletes where it's like you're doing a

455
00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 1: lot for the camera and stuff. With Mahomes like literally

456
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Speaker 1: jawing with Andy Reid on the sideline like I want

457
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Speaker 1: to go back in that thing, and Andy Reid's like,

458
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,399
Speaker 1: you gotta go back and get If it's negative, you're

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Speaker 1: back in. And so that was where that Chad Henny

460
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Speaker 1: period came in. And Chad Henny, this is what he

461
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 1: does every couple of years, rolls into the divisional round,

462
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,159
Speaker 1: does enough good stuff to keep it, keep employed. And

463
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Speaker 1: he does to Browns, he did it to the Jaguars,

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Speaker 1: and Mahomes came back in. I just think it's like

465
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Speaker 1: one of these things where, uh, you know, there aren't

466
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Speaker 1: that many guys like Mahomes on any level. We keep

467
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 1: trying to find new ways to describe him. Here's a

468
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,760
Speaker 1: new one. He did it completely differently in this game.

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Speaker 1: And I just look at this Chief's offense, which is

470
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Speaker 1: so different in many ways than the past versions we've seen.

471
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Speaker 1: And you guys got guys like Isaiah Pacheco and Darius

472
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Speaker 1: Tony making a bigger impact. They haven't even peaked yet,

473
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 1: Like their their offense and who they are is still

474
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: like on a weekly basis adding new people to the

475
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Speaker 1: mix like they it was Travis Kelsey and I think

476
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: was you could be a little concerned that, like you

477
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Speaker 1: don't have a wide receiver really step up for big

478
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Speaker 1: yardage in this but they just got it done. It's

479
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Speaker 1: like I think this these two teams were fairly slotted

480
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Speaker 1: for where they wound up nice effered by the Jaguars.

481
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Speaker 1: But the Chiefs just they've been doing this all year.

482
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,760
Speaker 1: They're not gonna blow your doors off psychologically if you're

483
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,959
Speaker 1: a viewer, They're gonna get it done right. I mean,

484
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs are the number one offense in the league

485
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Speaker 1: for the season by a decent amount based on basically

486
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Speaker 1: any metric for a reason, and they started that game

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Speaker 1: this way. They went to halftime and yet Chad hen

488
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Speaker 1: he played an entire uh series there touchdown, field, go touchdown.

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Speaker 1: And you have a quarterback in Mahomes who I think

490
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Speaker 1: in this game showed how much he's matured since when,

491
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Speaker 1: by the way, he was the best quarterback in the

492
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Speaker 1: league then too, because I don't know if he wins

493
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Speaker 1: this game the same sort of way, because that first

494
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: drive and a half. He made more plays just completely

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Speaker 1: on his own then I think any quarterback in the

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Speaker 1: league could. I was listening to it initially on the radio.

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Speaker 1: It was a little late coming home from the Zoo.

498
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Speaker 1: Zoo always takes a little longer than you think. The

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00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:14,120
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's not the Cincinnati Zoo, the l A Zoo. Very underrated. Nice,

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Speaker 1: nice family morning on the on the day of the

501
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: divisional playoffs. I know you can catch up on on

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Speaker 1: game Pass, and so I was listening on the first quarter,

503
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: listening to Trent Green, and it's like, you know, ming

504
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:31,439
Speaker 1: didn't really make it sound like it was that crazy.

505
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 1: And when I went back to watch the first quarter,

506
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Speaker 1: I'm like, every one of these Mahomes plays is insane.

507
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,639
Speaker 1: It was only because it was Patrick Mahomes. They scored

508
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Speaker 1: those ten points. And then after that, it's the decision

509
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Speaker 1: making and it's the maturity and getting rid of the

510
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 1: ball out quickly. The fact to me that he could

511
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Speaker 1: win the game in both kind of ways to speaks

512
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Speaker 1: to his greatness and why I definitely am not counting

513
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Speaker 1: them out this weekend, Like like it sounds like you're

514
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,560
Speaker 1: doing is a strong thing to do with any team

515
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Speaker 1: in the idle game and if Mahomes is involved, even

516
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Speaker 1: at or whatever, I still give him a chance. Um

517
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Speaker 1: do I like Sincinnati, Yes, I do like them to

518
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Speaker 1: get to the super Bowl, But yeah, I thought, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Mahomes side of it, Um I did. We mentioned

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Speaker 1: Henny he was the quarterback against the Browns a couple

521
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Speaker 1: of years ago. He shows up every divisional round, every

522
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Speaker 1: couple and so it's great to have a guy that

523
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Speaker 1: you can count on, especially this time of year, if

524
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Speaker 1: if you need it. But yeah, I thought that for me,

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Speaker 1: this game was like a reminder that they're not just

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. You know that this defense, which you know,

527
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Speaker 1: was facing a Jaguars team that was playing with house money,

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Speaker 1: that went in there knowing nobody was going to pick

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Speaker 1: him to win, and they had scored on five straight

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Speaker 1: possessions in their previous game, uh to have over a

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Speaker 1: historic comeback, and they just shut They shut down Trevor

532
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Speaker 1: Lawrence and that offense for the most part. And I

533
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Speaker 1: think there's a lot of credit that needs to be

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Speaker 1: handed out to Chris Jones and that whole team as

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Speaker 1: well on that side of the ball. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: I the Jaguars side of it, like if you there

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00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,640
Speaker 1: was a moment when Henny was there and he threw

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00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: that near interception to fo A lout Khan. Had he

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Speaker 1: had that been picked off, that would have changed this game.

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Speaker 1: But that interception has dropped later in the game, jamalag Knew,

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Speaker 1: who was sensational as a kick returner and has been

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Speaker 1: for a while, and put them in position to make

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Speaker 1: a difference. Had that killer fumble that at the at

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Speaker 1: the d at the Chiefs five or whatever, which basically

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Speaker 1: changes that possession, made three with about eight minutes to

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Speaker 1: gret and then you get the Lawrence the next possession,

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Speaker 1: you get the Trevor Lawrence interception, which just shows you like,

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Speaker 1: this is sometimes the Chiefs this year, because it's like,

549
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:35,359
Speaker 1: had those things gone differently, just a couple inches here

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Speaker 1: and there, Jacksonville is in this thing at the very end,

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00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 1: and then there're a freaky operation. This was a winnable game.

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Speaker 1: I think if Jaguars are getting that um bump from

553
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,959
Speaker 1: losing a playoff game like this, they went further than

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00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: you could ever expect. They were three and seven. I

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00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,200
Speaker 1: get it. But this is game in particular is frustrating

556
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,119
Speaker 1: because it was winnable. That chat Hanny drive. It showed

557
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: great confidence in Andy Reid to throw the ball out

558
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Speaker 1: in first down out of his own end zone. You

559
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: know that the past was for a touchdown. He ultimately

560
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 1: through for three yards per attempt. The key person in

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Speaker 1: that drive was Checo picking up eight yard gains on

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Speaker 1: first down. He had the thirty nine yard run. And

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00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: these are like power runs too. So to your point, Dan,

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00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 1: the pass rush was better than the Jaguars pass rush

565
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: where they've spent a lot of money. The Chiefs was

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Speaker 1: the running game. Both teams ran the ball well, but

567
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: certainly the Chief's ability to run the ball kept them

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Speaker 1: alive in that game. In that drive, like it was

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Speaker 1: an entire team. And I think that that says to

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Speaker 1: me that this this can be a championship team. And

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Speaker 1: it's gotta just be bitter sweet right now for the Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: that that at best, homes is gonna my homes is

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Speaker 1: gonna be like next week. Because I thought it was

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Speaker 1: impressive that you have my homes who can't move and

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Speaker 1: he's just gotta get the ball out quick. For a

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Speaker 1: big chunk of that game, that that if you're even

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00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: if you're Jacksonville good defense, they've evolved over the course

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Speaker 1: of the year, but you're catching up to that in

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Speaker 1: real time. And what Kansas City is gonna do. I

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Speaker 1: like Cincinnati's chances if you're gonna get amobile eyes Mahomes,

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Speaker 1: I just assume he's going to magically be like better,

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Speaker 1: because that seems to be what happens with Mahomes. I thought, again, Romo,

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00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: when they're just at this point, kill him time at

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00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: the end of the Bengals game talking about what's going

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00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: on with Mahomes, and you know, he said that he

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Speaker 1: had suffered high ankle sprains before and it's something that

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00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: you could play through the day it happens. But then

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00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: he was like the next day, like today, Mahomes probably

589
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: can't even walk. He's probably on crutches, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I missed my next game after high ankle sprain. Mahomes

591
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: obviously is a different person. We then heard like later

592
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Speaker 1: reporting that like Mahomes feels better, and the chief set

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00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: he feels better than they expect. What happened with you

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00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: in your high ankle sprain? This will be notable. I

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Speaker 1: think to the who, what, like, what happened with your

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00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: body when you had a high ankle spring? I would

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Speaker 1: like to set at the top of this seg I

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Speaker 1: never suffered one. I did thought you said you thought

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Speaker 1: you had suffering, had not, and that you skipped a

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00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: week or something. No, I said Tony Romo, CBS announcer, Well,

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Speaker 1: I I was starting to think you were talking about yourself.

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00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: All right, let's um. But Romo basically said that, yeah,

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00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: this is going to be a major issue, that he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be immobile if he plays, he will play, But

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Speaker 1: I think that's obviously such a major subplot now moving forward.

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00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: He let's hear from Mahomes what he had to say. Um,

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Speaker 1: after the game about his physical status. It feels better,

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Speaker 1: and I mean it was and better than I thought

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Speaker 1: it was gonna be. Now. Um, obviously a lot of

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Speaker 1: adrenaline on right now, so we'll see how it fills.

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Speaker 1: But I'll hop right in the treatment tonight tonight and

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Speaker 1: try to do whatever I can to be Uh, it's

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Speaker 1: close by next week. But luckily for us, we played

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Speaker 1: the early game on Saturday, so we get an extra

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00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: almost half a day that I can let that ankle rest.

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Speaker 1: He's he's just like an excited kid. Yeah, he's funny,

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00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,880
Speaker 1: like Trevor Lawrence on the other side, UM basically looks

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Speaker 1: at a central casting like either like a villain in

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Speaker 1: an eighties movie or like what you imagine like a

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Speaker 1: quarterback a star quarterback, or should look like homes looks different.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of UM, that sounds different. Speaking of Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 1: here's what he had to say after the first playoff

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Speaker 1: loss of his NFL career. They worked so hard to

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00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: get here, and nobody thought we were going to be here,

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00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,000
Speaker 1: and you know, we had our shot, and that's what hurts,

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00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, So we'll be back. I'm confident in that.

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00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: And this isn't this is this is more the beginning

628
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: than it is the end of something. Um, this is

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00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: just getting started for us. So we got a taste

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Speaker 1: of it. And I mean the guys already hungry to

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00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: get this opportunity again if they did a Varsity Blues reboot.

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00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: He's mocks like he is, but I think this is

633
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,680
Speaker 1: so like dying. I mean, first of all, like the

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00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: Jaguars are one of the better stories of the year.

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00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: I've got eight we have like eight or nine Coach

636
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: of the Year candidates, but Peterson's got a suddenly became

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00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: I mean, is here's the thing. Are they piste off

638
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: at this last Like, I think it's such a polar

639
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: spectrum opposite and it's rightfully so. Can I say we

640
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: mentioned a couple of years ago at the Browns and

641
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Speaker 1: that feeling like a missed opportunity because you had any

642
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,320
Speaker 1: in the game and my homes out and they couldn't

643
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,880
Speaker 1: find a way that that day, and I had the

644
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: Jags are thinking the same thing, like, we had this

645
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: guy out of the game for the second quarter basically,

646
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,360
Speaker 1: and then he was half of his usual self for

647
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 1: the rest of the game and we couldn't steal these

648
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: again again the Jags another team like, uh, it feels

649
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: like just the beginning for them. Said, but at the

650
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 1: same time, you never know when your opportunity to make

651
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: that deep run to be the Bengals of last year

652
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:21,920
Speaker 1: is and they didn't get it done in this spot

653
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 1: now and the but the Brown's head Baker Mayfield, and

654
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: the Jaguars have Trevor Lawrence, and even Trevor Lawrence has

655
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: to be more excited about the Jaguars because they have

656
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence right they they couldn't get any shot plays

657
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: throughout the game, you know, until late in the game.

658
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:39,400
Speaker 1: Lawrence was averaging like under four yards per tempt. I

659
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,600
Speaker 1: thought they got away from the run like way too quickly,

660
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: which is not something you would have expected out of

661
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: Peterson the average seven point six yards per carrying that game,

662
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 1: Like both teams from most of this game, we're averaging

663
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: more yards on the ground per play than they were

664
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. Even the Chiefs were through like three

665
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: quarters of this game and Lawrence was like making two

666
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: quick decisions and that the pass rush was winning for

667
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs. And it did feel not like a teacher

668
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: pupil thing, but it felt like the Chiefs were very

669
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: zeroed in on where the Jaguars were bad, which was

670
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: on the second level of their defense. Like they drafted

671
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: Devin Lloyd and they benched them halfway through the season

672
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: for for Chad Muma and those two guys heads were

673
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: spinning and they just were getting destroyed by Travis Kelsey

674
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,959
Speaker 1: fourteen catches yards to touchdowns, I mean, just the outrageous

675
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: caught every single pass to him that was like within

676
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: ten yards of the line of scrimmage thirteen thirty. It's

677
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: one of the weird things that actually, like meet out

678
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: from the Thursday Show where the Jaguars are the worst

679
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:39,959
Speaker 1: team in the league ins tight ends, and then Trevis

680
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: Skelsey goes completely nuclear on them. Um, what about that

681
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey versus Grant conversation? Stacking up these games in

682
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: the playoffs too? I find it. I find it very annoying.

683
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: So I brought it up. Yeah, I think I don't

684
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: think it is. I don't think it is, just because

685
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: they were in the league. They were at the same time,

686
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: and it's like one was, you know, clearly the best

687
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: tight end in the league while the other one was

688
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 1: pretty much at the peak of his powers. That you

689
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: used the same argument to say that Brady is the

690
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: best quarterback ever. I actually that's where I wouldn't. It

691
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: depends how you define it. He's accomplished the most. But

692
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: to me, my Homes is already the best quarterback ever.

693
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: Well that's your opinion just in terms of like playing

694
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 1: the position at the at the highest. Guess then I'm

695
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: probably picking the Bengals. I don't know. I mean, just

696
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: because we're all over the map here, thought like this game, no,

697
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, I think I think this went. Oh yeah, Bucker,

698
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: your boy game wasn't even the top ten of the

699
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: right had a rough year, but I think he was

700
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,959
Speaker 1: one of the key reasons they won this game. Didn't

701
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: miss a kick to field, goes to uh tackles, I

702
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: mean to extra points. But then the tackle on Agnew

703
00:34:55,160 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: was a massive got it the tackle and then ag

704
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,239
Speaker 1: Knew accidentally as He'll kicked under his face mask and

705
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: he got tripped by a face mask at all. He

706
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: doesn't it help at all? It all counts in the box.

707
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: Scar if you're if you're Harrison Butker and you've been

708
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: having some struggles to have another kicker come into the

709
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: world and have incredible struggles will get to him later

710
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,360
Speaker 1: than like Bucker's, Like no one even remembers that I

711
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: was having issues. You know what I liked if if

712
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: we're still in this game is the is the Lawrence

713
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,959
Speaker 1: moment in the in the alley on the way into

714
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 1: the locker room where he gets he like camps there

715
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,759
Speaker 1: and his high five and everyone as they come by,

716
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: and it's just like that's a dude. You want that

717
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna be okay. That it wasn't for the cameras,

718
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: Like he didn't know anyone was watching them there, and

719
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,319
Speaker 1: like everyone you could see what it meant to them

720
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: as they were going by, like take two, let's get

721
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 1: that well from another angle place. Take two, bigger smile,

722
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: bigger smile. Make sure this gig get this kid over here,

723
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: all right. I don't even know what you guys are

724
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,479
Speaker 1: talking about. Done exactly. You guys don't know what because

725
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: that's how I know it was in stage. It was

726
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: one local reporter because he didn't see it, caught it

727
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: on her phone and that was the only thing it was.

728
00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: He kind of camped out. Um, I'm thinking, I can't

729
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: together word as they're coming off the field to greet

730
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: every single player. Next stage, I was at the zoo.

731
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: There is Bengals cheeps at Arrowhead. It's great. That's one

732
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: side on the NFC side of things. We're gonna start

733
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: with the number one seeded Eagles, who, obviously, by virtue

734
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: of the dominant regular season record, had the top seed. However,

735
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: there were a lot of questions about what Eagles team

736
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: would show up out of the by against the upstart Giants. Oh,

737
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: this one got ugly fast perch of the gone perch.

738
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: Scrange it out on the far side to Davonte Smith,

739
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 1: a frost the five to the Smith such a great

740
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:51,920
Speaker 1: job job blocking by A. J. Brown, This dynamic duo,

741
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:57,000
Speaker 1: they're as good as it gets. It was so easy

742
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: for the Eagles on Saturday night. That was Meryl Reese

743
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: and like quick w I p Jalen Hurts through two

744
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, ran for another, looking very healthy in the

745
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 1: shoulder region as he did it, and the Eagles just

746
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 1: stroll past the Giants seven at the length. They built

747
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: up a twenty eight nothing halftime lead in the game.

748
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: There only been four more lopsided first half playoff shoutouts

749
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: in NFL history. So that's where we're at on this game,

750
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: Mark Sessler. The Eagles answered a lot of questions here.

751
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: They absolutely did. Like it was a total purifying experience

752
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,880
Speaker 1: where it's like, let's just reset the board and remember

753
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,720
Speaker 1: that the Philadelphia Eagles have been doing this two teams

754
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: all year long in so many different ways and the

755
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: dominant fashion that they did it in. To me, I

756
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: can point to the offense that right away, the forty

757
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: yard bomb from Hurts to DeVonta Smith showed you the

758
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: arms fine he was to making those throws even when

759
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: he had the shoulder it injury to begin with, but

760
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: he also ran with power he ran into people when

761
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: he needed to. Their ground game, it's the post yardage

762
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,240
Speaker 1: they piled up in a playoff games since the nineteen

763
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: NFL Championship game featured the Eagles, and it looked that way,

764
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,280
Speaker 1: and I thought the difference was also this Eagles defense.

765
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they're just like, again, where is the weakness here?

766
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: If everyone's healthy, they I think the Giants were the

767
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: kind of team that needed to show up early or

768
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: they could be broken in this and they really were

769
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: broken by halftime. It was kind of one of those

770
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: playoff games that, like, by about two minutes into the

771
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: second quarter, I'm tracking it maybe with less strident note

772
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:30,839
Speaker 1: taking and just so let's see where we are later

773
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: in this game. But the Giants on their first drive

774
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,360
Speaker 1: turnover on downs. When everything that's gone right for the Giants,

775
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: the Brian Dable risk taking, which is kind of part

776
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: of the DNA of who they've been. It goes back

777
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: to that Week one win over the Titans. It's happened

778
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: week after week Uh is a complete disastrous Daniel Jones

779
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: is taken down on back to back at totally outclass,

780
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: then the interception on the next drive. Suddenly it's twenty

781
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: one nothing, and it's like, no, there's no way for

782
00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,240
Speaker 1: this Giants team to climb back in, say Kwan, Barkley

783
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: has gone invisible, Daniel Jones has regressed to like free

784
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: Brian Dable levels and there's no one here to rescue them.

785
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,839
Speaker 1: Well no, in one game, I don't mean and he

786
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 1: looked like the old Daniel Jones for big chunks the

787
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: last night, which is that's what annoyed me, because I

788
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: liked what Daniel Jones has done this season. Yeah, that sequence,

789
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 1: there was so little tension in this game that that

790
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: sequence was memorable. When they're on defense and the Giants

791
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: first drive and it was second and five and Barkley

792
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: gets to the outside and a Son Reddick who's like

793
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 1: an edge player, gets him down to make it third

794
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,800
Speaker 1: and three, and then a sack by Sweat and Reddick

795
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: and then another sack by Reddick, Like their defensive line

796
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: is outrageous. Reddick had just an incredible season, one of

797
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: the best free agent pickups in a long time, especially

798
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 1: for the money, Like he didn't even get paid that much.

799
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy. He uh was out there and

800
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: on offense, the Eagles do something against the Giants every

801
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 1: time that I love, which which which Greg Olsen talks

802
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: about two you throw to win early and then run

803
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: to end the game. That the throwing sets up the running.

804
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: And they've done that every time they've played against the Giants,

805
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: and none of them have been competitive. And there are

806
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: concerns obviously entering this game about Jalen Hurts, would he

807
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: be able to throw, would he be able to play aggressively?

808
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: And he answered a lot of those questions. Here was

809
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: Nick Sirianni. We're gonna get to Sirianni in a second,

810
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: because what a Saturday night sirian Absolutely like I've I've

811
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: bumped into dudes like Sirianni at DJs and Belmar at

812
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: the clubs down in the early two thousands, like he

813
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: was a pumped up boy. But let's start with Sirianni

814
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: on his quarterback. I know this is high parade, but

815
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: to have him out there is like having h'm I

816
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:37,960
Speaker 1: shouldn't even go there, but like he's having like Michael

817
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: Jordan not there, Like he's your leader. He's your leader,

818
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: he's your guy, he's your Hopefully that's the biggest respect

819
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: I can pay to him comparing comparing to his ability

820
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: to being on the field, uh to a to a

821
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:55,279
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan type like this guy leads. He brings this

822
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 1: calmness to the to the entire team. He plays great football.

823
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: He's tough as as as as they come. Um yeah,

824
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: I mean to me, ain't nobody has played a better

825
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: football than him this year. I did the channel uh

826
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: West first. Completely different than basketball, apparently not according to

827
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: Nick sirianni Um the moratorium on the m J comparisons. Um,

828
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: because unless you're talking about like the m J who

829
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: was a fierce competitor from like eighty four to ninety

830
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: but wasn't getting over the hump. What made Jordan Jordan

831
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: was on with six titles and six tries Beckham to

832
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's. So he's he did it too. I think

833
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: I probably wanted you to remind the people of that.

834
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: But you know that's where's it's a stand in for

835
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,240
Speaker 1: just saying that this is the guy that everybody pounds

836
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: a table for. But I don't. I also don't think

837
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 1: like he is like a standout amongst the rest of

838
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: this team. I think this is the most loaded roster

839
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 1: in the game. Greggy, I hear you, But I think

840
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: what he was telling you, and and the teammates of

841
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts tell you too. And they said this after

842
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: this game that Hurts had some quote to all of

843
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: them just how he was starving for it. That he's

844
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: just starving for this title. And I think he is,

845
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: amongst other things, an incredible leader. And that was what

846
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 1: the people uh analyzing him coming out in the draft

847
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 1: struggled with that, just like this guy is like sort

848
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: of talked about like he's this Tim Tebow like leader,

849
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: except he actually has these athletic gifts and if he

850
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: can learn how to do a drop back passing game

851
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 1: and throw deep and we've we've seen it, like he

852
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: could just be next level. But you're right that he's

853
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: set up by a great offensive life. I mean, this

854
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: this was I almost feel like this game was too

855
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: easy for Philadelphia. But it's why you go. That's why

856
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: the regular season matters. You get the one seed, You

857
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:44,640
Speaker 1: play a team that you're just so much better than

858
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 1: than than you know, and that you know all their tendencies,

859
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:50,799
Speaker 1: and like they set up in these heavy run formations

860
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: and then they pass it, and then they set up

861
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: in these spread passing formations and then they run it

862
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: and it's like they're mixing up what they do on

863
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: on defense really well. There was that play on offense,

864
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: remember when they all lined up like they were gonna

865
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,799
Speaker 1: do the double cheek push and the Giants were all

866
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: ready for it, and then they just flip it to

867
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: the outside. It's just like they've got these great players,

868
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: and you're right, Hurts is put in position where like

869
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: he he just has to do his thing. Well, I

870
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: think it is like that, we're gonna get a new

871
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: coach who's gonna completely flub his first press conference, and

872
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna it's gonna be, you know, February March. We're

873
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:24,920
Speaker 1: gonna rip on this guy and have our time with him.

874
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,840
Speaker 1: But Nick Sirianni was a disaster pr wise out of

875
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 1: the gate. But I think there's such a well coached team.

876
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 1: They completely neutralized New York's pass rush, which was their

877
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,399
Speaker 1: selling point going into this thing. Too. With that, there's

878
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: any chance to stop the Eagles. Seventeen pass run snaps

879
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: generated zero QB pressure in the first half led to

880
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: that dominance. Hurts and his three quickest times to throw

881
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: games in his entire career have come against this year's

882
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: Giants in three games and the thing is that what

883
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,040
Speaker 1: they did to New York in Week fourteen before the

884
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 1: Eagles were sitting people late in the Giants were It's

885
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: like the they blew their doors off in similar fashion.

886
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: This It looked very similar. They did a lot of

887
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,280
Speaker 1: the same stuff. New York knew that, and Brian Table

888
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: is a good coach and Wink Martin Dial has been

889
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: a good coach, and they couldn't counter it. It reminded

890
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: me of like Patriots Texans Divisional round, like in some

891
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: of the Texans lower years, where it was like a

892
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: light warm up for the real game. And I think

893
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: that's what's the most disappointing thing for Giants fans, because

894
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 1: the idea was that, coming off that dramatic win in

895
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: Minnesota and how well they were playing, that they were

896
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: going to ride that wave, and then the wave just

897
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: crashed on them within five minutes of the game starting.

898
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: Here's a Brian Dable told uh said that he told

899
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: his team after the blowout loss to him keep their

900
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: heads up. They competed hard. Um, it's a crash landing

901
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Anytime you lose, it hurts because of

902
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:44,719
Speaker 1: the amount of effort and energy you put into it

903
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: each week, and when you lose this time of year, um,

904
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: it hurts even more. There's a lot of talk after

905
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: the game. I saw it on Twitter, I saw it

906
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: on my New York buddies with text and everything. You know,

907
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,960
Speaker 1: they were confident going into this, very confident but ugly loss,

908
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,560
Speaker 1: somewhat embarrassing loss. But you know, the future is really

909
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: bright for the Giants. Maybe I'll say this absolutely a

910
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: great first year for Dable, um, but you know, they

911
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: got in the playoffs. They beat the Vikings, who were

912
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: frauds we know, and the Colts to clinch the playoffs spot.

913
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: And this kind of was a reminder how far away

914
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: they still are and these are things that they all

915
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: need to think about spinning forward. With Daniel Jones, who

916
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,480
Speaker 1: certainly did not look like a impact player in this

917
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: particular setting. Sae Kwon Barkley, a running back getting closer

918
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: to age thirty, what kind of contract do you give him?

919
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: How else do you build up this team? This isn't

920
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 1: like go get von Miller and we're ready to roll.

921
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: The Giants still have a lot of work to do.

922
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: Even if you could see this season as a success,

923
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: I mean, if if anything, they went into this year

924
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: with I think they're their front office with Joe Shane

925
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,839
Speaker 1: is like they're not like rose colored glasses, Like they

926
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: didn't even they didn't even give the fifth year option

927
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,160
Speaker 1: to Jones. Sa Kwan Barkley was a wait and see.

928
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: And I do think games like this can change your

929
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: off season planning, and I don't think it changes what

930
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: they think about Daniel Jones, but any contract going his

931
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 1: way can't get in the way of continuing to look

932
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: for like the Eagles did that next quarterback they did

933
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: like they had Carson Wentz and they looked at Hurts

934
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: and then suddenly, look where we are. You're not still

935
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,720
Speaker 1: struggling trying to put the wrong guy in there. So Jones,

936
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: I think great career season. You bring them back at

937
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 1: the right price that that works. But like there's no

938
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: pressure that they should or might draft a quarterback high

939
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:27,879
Speaker 1: because I feel like that would be weird to give

940
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 1: him a new deal. I'm not saying, I just like

941
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: it's the problem with these quarterback deals as they all

942
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: kind of look too much alike, where like even the

943
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: middle tiers a ton of money, but like if you

944
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,919
Speaker 1: do where there's no guaranteed money, very soon actually great

945
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: pull because like if you if you listen to w

946
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 1: I P on that day, like people hated that pick,

947
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: like why would we take a quarterback when we have

948
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback? I think Jones and I would throw Gino

949
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:53,439
Speaker 1: into this category are the type of like middle quarterbacks,

950
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: and I think Gino's above that on some level. But

951
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,040
Speaker 1: you're still gonna be looking for younger guys. And and

952
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was very circumspect, didn't really say anything, you

953
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:04,680
Speaker 1: know when they talked about his future. Se Quon was

954
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: very big on like I can't imagine playing anywhere else.

955
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 1: But it reminds me a lot of the Tyrode Bill season.

956
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: So I don't know if Daniel Jones will be like

957
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: they'll change quarterbacks like it. But I thought, like McDermott

958
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: and um, you know, their front office showed who they

959
00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: were like leading up to that Tyrode season, like we're

960
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: a different Bills team, and they actually took a step

961
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: back like the next year after that, but it like

962
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: showed who they were and they were a little ahead

963
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: of schedule. And I think to your point, that's what Joe,

964
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: Shane and Davil did. It's it's a long term thing.

965
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: But they have twelve starters out of their twenty uh

966
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 1: two starters are set to hit fre Agent. Maybe a

967
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: little bit of cold water on the the Daniel Jones,

968
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: um uprising the last few weeks works out well for

969
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 1: them in decisions they're making money, they end up spending

970
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:54,799
Speaker 1: We shall see. Um, we had some blocks involved in

971
00:47:54,800 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: this game, correct, I locked it up. This is of

972
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: those locks you enjoy. You don't have to ease do

973
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: a rocking chair game, just this. You don't have to

974
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: sweat it out. Oh and to let her letter really

975
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: locked it up to Yeah, that's right, and Dan did not,

976
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: which most of our listeners probably don't know now because

977
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,319
Speaker 1: I've got The only annoying part about you switching your

978
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: tweets is like Drew our our producer, thought, uh, I

979
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: won the lock Championship. He didn't know you switched. People

980
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 1: don't follow these things, well how would they unless they're

981
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: following every tweet I send in the middle of like,

982
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: I saw some people responding to what you've done. Certainly

983
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: your your Twitter follows, but that's a relatively Yeah, I'm joking.

984
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Drew got nine feet tall of you. I

985
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: should have mentioned that I had switched my Lock, but

986
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,879
Speaker 1: I got a lot of tweets that were like, congratside

987
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: your LOCK championship. Um, well I reverse, yeah, like I

988
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 1: stuck with my Giants pick um, which I had no

989
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of fun. And uh, you know,

990
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: as as the season goes along, you say goodbye to teams,

991
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: you say goodbye to news developments, you say goodbye to

992
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: things that seemed they'll never go away. And I'm saying

993
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: goodbye to Lock. Standing scenario here we said goodbye to

994
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: the West best officially too on that I'm gonna gonna

995
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: talk to you something you talking about something? Go ahead,

996
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: a long time friend. You know that I would never

997
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: betray you, your family, or our alliance. It brings me

998
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: a great sorrow to know that you may feel that

999
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: I deserted you and it's time to meet. Well, you

1000
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: must understand my intentions were driven purely by survivor. I

1001
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: couldn't remain in our New York family alliance. Had to

1002
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: come into the realization that our enemy had set a

1003
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 1: trap in Philadelphia with the intention to laure's both to

1004
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: an early demise. I will forge on in your honor factor.

1005
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: That's a huge victory for me. I guess, um, I

1006
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:52,760
Speaker 1: appreciate the sentiments. Um. I did see what love Smith

1007
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,479
Speaker 1: said to his team when he played for a time.

1008
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: I think there was a lot of chatter on on

1009
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: Twitter about it, um my mentions just because of I

1010
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: think you tagged us on some of this or like.

1011
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: But there was one of the like. There was an

1012
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: image of like Mario brothers, Mario like jumping safely to

1013
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: a cliff and he was holding onto one like another

1014
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: character and just like let it go, and he just

1015
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: disappears into a shop. The other character's eyes well up

1016
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: before he dropped into a deathly hades. And that's what

1017
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: happened to me over the weekend. I definitely there. I

1018
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: had regrets about that, but I also I was thinking

1019
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 1: about it, like, first of all, you gave me warning,

1020
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: though I couldn't warning, it would have felt on an

1021
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: original the trophy still in my house to two back.

1022
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 1: I don't need to be in a total place of

1023
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 1: desperation when Greggy's trying to trick us and to pick

1024
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: in the g men and ending the whole thing. What

1025
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: you thought to myself, you're giving me way too, said, Okay,

1026
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: he took the eagles, that's the right play two games up,

1027
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: but I don't. I'm not gonna pick a team I

1028
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 1: don't believe and I didn't believe in the Giants, so

1029
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,359
Speaker 1: I went elsewhere and as a result, I am still

1030
00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 1: alive with two weeks to play. Yeah, I don't hate

1031
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: on that at all. I mean, I think it's good

1032
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: to try to get your locks right and not take

1033
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: bad teams. So that makes total sense. It's just bad.

1034
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: It's bad showmanship to confuse the listeners. But I think

1035
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: it's the right the right pick. Well, even if it's

1036
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: good to keep them off about it's uh playing for

1037
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: the tie. You never want to do that, but it's

1038
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: better than losing a lot of listeners don't understand that

1039
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: Lock of the Week is like the game you're most

1040
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: confident in. There, like, how is it a lock if

1041
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: you change it? It's not like that season I could

1042
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone could care less about that day.

1043
00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: We could revisit that down the line if it's something

1044
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,720
Speaker 1: we want to say that they have to be binding

1045
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: on the day of the show. But um, I knew

1046
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: in my heart that I had to move, and yes,

1047
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: I can only tie right now. But again, the trophies

1048
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: in my house and I didn't want to go out

1049
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:45,680
Speaker 1: on the giants. I don't want to fall on that sword.

1050
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 1: I don't blame you, can I give you one quick

1051
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: media uptake because you know it was my Like we

1052
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,439
Speaker 1: talked about the fact that I went on the little

1053
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: NFL dot com picks. I'm and I stress little and uh,

1054
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: I would say, because you picked the giant, I picked

1055
00:51:57,560 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 1: the giants. And you know, if that goes right suddenly

1056
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 1: to the Tri state area is just like you know,

1057
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,760
Speaker 1: carrying you around town. Now I'm getting like a billion

1058
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 1: of those when this happens as source the old takes exposed,

1059
00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: It's like do I need this? It's just like I

1060
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:11,920
Speaker 1: just simply log off Twitter will come back in like

1061
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: mid April. Here's the thing that these social accounts have

1062
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 1: no accountability either. They actually sent out an article from

1063
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: bills dot com showing all the expert predictions and by

1064
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 1: the way, most of them were picking the bills. But

1065
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 1: they took one of my quotes saying where the bills

1066
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 1: are poor and sent that out on their main feed

1067
00:52:32,400 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: and then click the link and by the way, like

1068
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: twelve out of sixteen people in that link picked the bills.

1069
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: I was not one of them. Are they gonna come

1070
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 1: back uh and apologize and point, Hey, you're right, actually

1071
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: our shortcomings on the offensive line, and actually I think

1072
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,719
Speaker 1: they reiver. You expect that. I can think you can

1073
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 1: expect them to do that. I see you bills before

1074
00:52:51,800 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: we before we go on to the last game. Can

1075
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: we talk about Sirianni in that game? He was extra

1076
00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not going to kill him for it.

1077
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:01,240
Speaker 1: Maybe when he looked in to the Cameron slow motion

1078
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: and shook his head like, yeah, I'm the mother of him. Man,

1079
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:06,879
Speaker 1: that one was a little extra. Um. But the whole

1080
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: game he was super amped up and excited. I think

1081
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: it's because he saw his game plan being you know,

1082
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 1: unfurled and and just perfection. But let's play that that

1083
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: when they were I think that was when they were

1084
00:53:18,880 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 1: up by five touchdowns or something, four touchdowns and they

1085
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:25,399
Speaker 1: line up for two and uh, is that the way

1086
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: we have here? Yeah? They line up for two? Uh,

1087
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: and then he calls time out and this is what

1088
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: we saw and heard. I know I'm allowed to be

1089
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: down here. And then he had he also had this

1090
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: to say, name checking an old friend of ours. Sometimes

1091
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:46,520
Speaker 1: I have to hear like some things about Jonathan gannon

1092
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: like and I don't know if it's you guys, it

1093
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: might be more people. UM. I won't say names. Angelo

1094
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: all right, Uh, but this guy is an unbelievable Cordina.

1095
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: The fact that he doesn't get respect from our r

1096
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: R station blows my It blows my mind. And I

1097
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 1: know you work at the radio station too, so I'm

1098
00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: not gonna say anything about you. But this guy is

1099
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:15,239
Speaker 1: an incredible coordinator. People love to play for this guy,

1100
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 1: like and listen, you want me to keep going? He's

1101
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: looking over to the PR guy. That's Angelo Cataldi, by

1102
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: the way, who has been their morning guy there forever.

1103
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: I think he's retiring at the end of this year.

1104
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 1: I mean, is Angelo the most powerful sports talk radio

1105
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 1: guy in the country. Really is an old school sports

1106
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: town where sports talk radio is still king and what

1107
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 1: those guys say really does matter and years cares about

1108
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: what Zolak saying. I don't think I mean a different situations. Um.

1109
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:55,240
Speaker 1: One last one, last note on the MJ thing. Yeah,

1110
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: what's calm down? The MJ was a great teammate. He

1111
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,759
Speaker 1: was brutal on a lot of his teammates. He commanding,

1112
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 1: he was sometimes demeaning. He could be cruel. He expected

1113
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:06,279
Speaker 1: everyone to be as good as him, even though that

1114
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: was impossible, and I guess that made some guys better.

1115
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 1: But like Jalen Hurts, as far as I understand, that

1116
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: is not the type of h is much more like

1117
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: a consistent, super motivated guy that liked but he But

1118
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 1: if you put it, but what, we've lost a lot

1119
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:25,360
Speaker 1: of the nuance of Michael Jordan's like over the years.

1120
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 1: I get where he's coming from. I get that you

1121
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: don't like it, but this doesn't old. I want to

1122
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,440
Speaker 1: keep like the actual like what mj was, which is

1123
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: one of the great not only the greatest player ever

1124
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: but the greatest like sometimes nastiest competitors, but not a

1125
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 1: cancer like he was too good. He fired that team up.

1126
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: I mean they showed up in big moments over and over,

1127
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: so he found some balance there. To your point, um,

1128
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: you know, that's like the fourth different quarterback that's been

1129
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: compared to Jordan on this show this year, a loon,

1130
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,839
Speaker 1: and so they would probably completely different than basketball. Mark

1131
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:02,439
Speaker 1: said it, let's move, let's move two a break, Let's

1132
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: take a break. We'll be right back, all right. So

1133
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,720
Speaker 1: the Eagles move on. They will host the NFC Title

1134
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:14,640
Speaker 1: game next weekend. Their opponent it had to be the Niners.

1135
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: You knew it was gonna be the Niners. It is

1136
00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: the Niners. Steps it back to Dak Prescott. He goes

1137
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:26,799
Speaker 1: over the middle of the church cree when the Boo

1138
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: partners is laughing. Forty Niners Shore going to the NFC

1139
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: Title game for a third time in the last four years.

1140
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 1: This stuff is not easy. The Chief's going five years

1141
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 1: in a row. God nobody wants say. Oh. Dan always

1142
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: brings it back to the Jets. The Jets have been

1143
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 1: to the a f C title game four times in

1144
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,280
Speaker 1: my entire life. I was born in to go five

1145
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: years in a row, to go three out of four years.

1146
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 1: These are major organizational achievements. Shout out to the Niners

1147
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: who get past the Dallas Cowboys nineteen to twelve, largely

1148
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: because of their defense. Again, like the Philadelphia Eagles, loaded

1149
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, and when one side

1150
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: doesn't have a big day, you could still move forward

1151
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:15,279
Speaker 1: because the other side could step up. We saw that

1152
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,560
Speaker 1: there on that final play of the game, and and

1153
00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:21,480
Speaker 1: Greggy um and we're gonna get to the Dallas side

1154
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: of it because it's always filled with juice and it's

1155
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: just so it's almost like a Greek tragedy when you

1156
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 1: get to the Cowboys in January now. But the Niners

1157
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: they've showed through uh scoring in the last month that

1158
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: they could just destroy a team. This show they could

1159
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: win this type of game too. That's valuable. I think

1160
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: you set it up perfectly like the Eagles and the

1161
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:43,960
Speaker 1: forty Niners. For all the talk that it's like the

1162
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 1: these a f C superpowers, here they got the best

1163
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:48,200
Speaker 1: teams that I've been saying that because of their quarterbacks.

1164
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,520
Speaker 1: The Forts and the Eagles are the two teams that

1165
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 1: can win any type of game that you don't know

1166
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,520
Speaker 1: what unit's gonna show up, whether it's the defensive line

1167
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: or the secondary, or their passing game, or it's the

1168
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 1: running game. And forty Niners offense really didn't show up

1169
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: for much of this game. Credit to the Cowboys defense

1170
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,919
Speaker 1: for their game plan and their talent, but this game

1171
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: was there for the taking if Dak Prescott and the

1172
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:16,360
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense could get anything done, and they just couldn't.

1173
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: And part of that is is Damiko Ryan's is coaching.

1174
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: Part of it is this linebacker group, which is just

1175
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: so good Fred Warner making plays down the field and

1176
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:30,560
Speaker 1: coverage alsha here was everywhere. He's so good that they

1177
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: have to keep three linebackers on the field, which not

1178
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: many teams do. We know, Dre greenlaws a beast like

1179
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: he made great plays. They just confused the hell out

1180
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,880
Speaker 1: of Dac when he was backing up to pass and

1181
00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:46,479
Speaker 1: they were all over their receivers. They let Ceedee Lamb

1182
00:58:46,520 --> 00:58:49,560
Speaker 1: get some catches and that's about it. And I just

1183
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: think if you kept playing this game. As much as

1184
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:55,760
Speaker 1: I want to pick on Mike McCarthy for not being aggressive,

1185
00:58:56,360 --> 00:58:58,520
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak in the Dallas offense would have

1186
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:01,439
Speaker 1: delivered if he was aggressive. So I think they would

1187
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: have lost this game either way. Because of this, forty

1188
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: ers don't come out of it with a with a

1189
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: ton of blame for Mike McCarthy or even the approach,

1190
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: because Dak Prescott did not look comfortable from the very

1191
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: word go uh. You know, the two interceptions, they only

1192
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: lead to two field goals. That's not fatal, But in

1193
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 1: a game like this where it was nine nine deep

1194
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 1: into the game, that's the difference. I mean, little moments

1195
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: like that because the big question was what we got

1196
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: pristine Doc and we could go we got pristine Dallas Cowboys.

1197
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: Is that who they are? They've grown into that? No,

1198
00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 1: they haven't. And the the Niners find a way to

1199
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: make those versions, the better versions of their opponent disappear

1200
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: in a hurry. It's the defense. And then what I

1201
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: think happens with this Niners offense because it's a different

1202
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: game than a week ago when they were trailing Seattle

1203
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,440
Speaker 1: at halftime, but just over the course of the game,

1204
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: they find a way for enough to happen on offense.

1205
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: And a game like this where it's so tight. Brock Purty,

1206
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: who is just absolutely like ice cold, like never seems

1207
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: to be razzled, frazzled on any level, like found George

1208
00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: k with that incredible catch. I thought that was the

1209
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,360
Speaker 1: turning point drive of the game. And then you got

1210
01:00:04,440 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: started to see Christian McCaffrey get through, Elijah Mitchell get through,

1211
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: and I just noticed the Dallas defense starting to tire

1212
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: because this wasn't a game like the Eagles against the Giants,

1213
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: where the Niners on the ground produced a lot early

1214
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 1: but they kept mentioning it and you know that like

1215
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 1: Shanahan clearly stated it to the broadcast team. We want

1216
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:23,920
Speaker 1: to be physical, we want to run the ball. We're

1217
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: not looking to take a ton of shots down field.

1218
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: We want to be able to do this against Dallas.

1219
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: It took a really long time, but in the last

1220
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: couple of drives, I'm not saying they were prolific, but

1221
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: you saw it and had Elijah Mitchell not run out

1222
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 1: of bounds like they would have iced it even minutes before,

1223
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: we wouldn't even got into that last absurd play with

1224
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott snapping the ball and then the whole thing

1225
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: ends and Dalton Schultz made some terrible bone headed plays

1226
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:48,880
Speaker 1: back to back on that last drive. It wasn't a

1227
01:00:48,880 --> 01:00:52,439
Speaker 1: great look um for the Cowboys. But yeah, I think

1228
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: Dallas just like last year. You you came out of

1229
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: that game against again the fort but it was in

1230
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: Arlington that game, Um, they didn't execute the way they could,

1231
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,040
Speaker 1: They didn't take advantage of opportunities, and it happened again here.

1232
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:08,480
Speaker 1: And it must be so frustrating for a Cowboys fan

1233
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: because that big Kittle circus catch, you know, that sets

1234
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: up um San Francisco on the Cowboys side of the field.

1235
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 1: But that becomes a touchdown drive because Trayvon Digs has

1236
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 1: a ball just skip right into his bread basket, uh,

1237
01:01:22,520 --> 01:01:26,680
Speaker 1: for what would have been a massive, potentially game shifting interception.

1238
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: He can't hold onto the ball. Um, there's a penalty

1239
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: in there as well that kept the drive alive, right,

1240
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: was it gonna be third or fourth and nineteen or something?

1241
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 1: And and the San Francisco then, to their credit, takes

1242
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 1: advantage and gets in and it's just like it's just

1243
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: the same things happen over and over again. I think

1244
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 1: McCarthy probably survives here. Um. But at the same time,

1245
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: would it shocked you with Sean Payton out there, uh

1246
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: running from mayor if it ends very differently. Here is

1247
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: Jared Jones, who you know, Jerry Jones, God bless him.

1248
01:01:56,720 --> 01:02:00,120
Speaker 1: You know. My feelings and Jerr are clear that we

1249
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: will miss him when he's gone as a character in

1250
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: terms of what he uh, the entertainment value he brings.

1251
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: He went onto the field before the game to consult

1252
01:02:09,280 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: with Brett Maher after he missed a couple of field

1253
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: goals in warmups. That's the GM slash owner of the Cowboys,

1254
01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,760
Speaker 1: and of course he has thoughts on the Mike McCarthy

1255
01:02:18,800 --> 01:02:21,480
Speaker 1: decision to punt late in the game. I think what

1256
01:02:21,680 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: greg about three minutes left or so, fourth and ten

1257
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 1: deep in their own end. Um, they do get the

1258
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: ball back, but the game for all intents and purposes

1259
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: is over by that point. A lot of criticism on

1260
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,320
Speaker 1: McCarthy and the Cowboys. Here's what Jared had to say

1261
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 1: about that decision. They had a lot to say about it.

1262
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:42,320
Speaker 1: But um, but they uh it appears today we go

1263
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,640
Speaker 1: more scheme pretty good out there by their defensive coaches.

1264
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:50,400
Speaker 1: We scheme them pretty good. So uh, that was a

1265
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: that was a big difference. Uh, we had it tar

1266
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: force probably right up until the last three or four minutes.

1267
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: We had it tar force to get a step farther

1268
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 1: to the championship. But still, I'm I'm sick. Uh don't

1269
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: have Uh it's really anything materials important. Listen to him

1270
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:18,000
Speaker 1: say so was he saying that like the coaches essentially

1271
01:03:18,040 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: told him, well, the defense had it all over us

1272
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: at that point. I mean, that is what he's saying,

1273
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: and that's to me, we were schemed pretty good out

1274
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:28,439
Speaker 1: there by their defensive coaches. I think what he's saying

1275
01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: is we had no confidence we could pick up a

1276
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: fourth down, which is self evident because there were three

1277
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 1: decisions late in that game. It was actually two minutes

1278
01:03:36,360 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: and five seconds left by the time they got that

1279
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: punt off, so it was before the two minute warning.

1280
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 1: Was fourth and ten from from your own a team, right.

1281
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: But when when they punted that, you know, we were

1282
01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:49,040
Speaker 1: we were in the in the film room and I said, like,

1283
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: there's a really good chance they don't get the ball

1284
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 1: back here, and they wouldn't have if Elijah Mitchell stayed

1285
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 1: in bounds And by the time they did get the

1286
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:59,479
Speaker 1: ball back it was a prayer. But earlier in the half,

1287
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:05,000
Speaker 1: Dan fourth and five at the forty the forty niners forty,

1288
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: they decided to take a delay of game uh and

1289
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: punt it and then the drive even before that. Granted

1290
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 1: there on the forty niners um and it's only a

1291
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:17,680
Speaker 1: forty three yard field goal for Maher and it's a

1292
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 1: fourth and eight, But I did think considering Maher, considering

1293
01:04:21,360 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: they needed a touchdown, Uh, they could have gone for

1294
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: it there if you were seeing anything out of the

1295
01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense. But I think based on that Jones quote,

1296
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 1: they had no confidence and I don't think it would

1297
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 1: have mattered because they shouldn't have had any content and

1298
01:04:33,960 --> 01:04:36,480
Speaker 1: this is and Greg, you are the president of the

1299
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 1: Dak fan Club, so I want to hear this. He

1300
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 1: played terribly. I mean this was he was brilliant on

1301
01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: Monday night against the Bucks, and you give him all

1302
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: the credit in the world for that, but that was

1303
01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: the Bucks, an eight and nine team. If Dak wants

1304
01:04:50,360 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: to be seen as one of the best quarterbacks in

1305
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: the league, you need to deliver better than he did.

1306
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:58,680
Speaker 1: He had two interceptions. He had a Drake greenlock it

1307
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: at US pick six late this game that would have

1308
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,480
Speaker 1: sealed it and that would have been on his tombstone Doc.

1309
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 1: So he even got away with another killer throw. And

1310
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: just after that New Year pick six, he had a

1311
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 1: receiver deep that he misfired on, got the guy turned around.

1312
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,680
Speaker 1: That could have been a big play and he just

1313
01:05:14,760 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: didn't show up. And I think that informed some of

1314
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: the decision making by Mike McCarthy, who said, my Devents

1315
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:23,480
Speaker 1: is playing well and I can't move the ball at

1316
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: my quarterback today, so I'm gonna hope that that wins

1317
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: that way. It was just it's disappointing, to say the least.

1318
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,200
Speaker 1: The game we got from the quarterback. I totally agree

1319
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 1: it was a disaster. I actually thought the second half

1320
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: after the first two interceptions was worse. I don't know

1321
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: if they were in his head, but I thought it

1322
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 1: got worse. Even though he didn't throw a pick in

1323
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: the second half. He could have that ball to Ceedee

1324
01:05:48,400 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 1: Lamb down the seam that Fred Warner made the great

1325
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:52,600
Speaker 1: play on. I mean, if he puts that out there

1326
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:55,400
Speaker 1: a little more. M J D in the film room

1327
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: with us spotted it right away. Put some air under that,

1328
01:05:57,800 --> 01:06:01,200
Speaker 1: let's seed, keep the afterburners on. That's that's a touchdown.

1329
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,040
Speaker 1: The plays down the sideline, and then I actually I'm

1330
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: almost haunted by the there's a third and five, I

1331
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: think on their first drive of the second half, and

1332
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: and Olsen was all over this one too. Was he

1333
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 1: went through his read so fast, had no pressure on him,

1334
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 1: and threw a weird outlet pass to Zeke that was

1335
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:21,120
Speaker 1: not on target, that had no chance for a first down,

1336
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 1: And that was a panicked, poorly executed decision and throw.

1337
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I think, I think that's what San Francisco

1338
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: does to you. I look at a Cowboys team that

1339
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,400
Speaker 1: had a chance, a major chance when Rayby McLeod fumbled

1340
01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:34,640
Speaker 1: the punt. You're at San Francisco twenty one. You get

1341
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 1: out of there with a field goal. You can't do

1342
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: that against this Niners team. And like Dak, Prescott completely disappointed.

1343
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:44,640
Speaker 1: And I think there's similar images to the terrible loss

1344
01:06:44,920 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 1: they suffered against the Niners a year ago. And I

1345
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: don't care about that final play, for instance, And we

1346
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: were saying during our break, like, all right, you're gonna

1347
01:06:52,400 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: have to dial up something. It's gonna probably be wacky.

1348
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 1: It's gonna be wacky. But that said, I would rather

1349
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: just say, let's just go for the hail. Mary then

1350
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: had the seat that last year was Dak's scrambling, not

1351
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: getting the first, trying to down the ball, the time

1352
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 1: runs out, like the whole things of fiasco. It's your

1353
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 1: final image of that Cowboys team. This was a good

1354
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 1: Cowboys team that a year later, it's Zeke Elliott who's

1355
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:18,000
Speaker 1: ruled ineligible, snapping the ball to Dac who whips it

1356
01:07:18,040 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 1: to turpin and he's nailed to the ground and the

1357
01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:23,280
Speaker 1: thing is over. It's like that's a circus. Sean Payton's

1358
01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 1: loving that the way that game plays out and the

1359
01:07:25,680 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 1: reason Zeke is all over the game plan is because

1360
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, who was such a special player for him

1361
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:33,200
Speaker 1: this year. Um, he goes out in the first half

1362
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 1: with a what's initially called a high ankle sprain, and

1363
01:07:36,880 --> 01:07:39,560
Speaker 1: then it's reported after the game that he suffered a

1364
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: fractured left fibula that will require surgery. Um normally, according

1365
01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 1: to Todd Archer, Uh, those require a three month recovery. Greg,

1366
01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,960
Speaker 1: as you said during the break, he's a free agent

1367
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: to be just bad bad, uh misfortune for Pollard. Yeah,

1368
01:07:57,160 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: that that's depressing. He's still, to me, would be a

1369
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: great free agent pick up for anyone. But yeah, there's

1370
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 1: just these they're not great in the details. And I

1371
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:09,479
Speaker 1: saw this interview acted with Aaron Andrews before the game,

1372
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:11,120
Speaker 1: and he was talking about how he didn't leave the

1373
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 1: house for two weeks after the last one and that

1374
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 1: he actually rewatched the press conference from the post game

1375
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: lost to the forty isers this week because like he

1376
01:08:24,439 --> 01:08:27,639
Speaker 1: didn't want to feel that again. And it just feels

1377
01:08:27,680 --> 01:08:30,080
Speaker 1: like you don't want to get inside his head. But

1378
01:08:30,240 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 1: he put him a lot on himself for this game,

1379
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 1: like that it's gonna be different, and then for it

1380
01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: to happen again as Devins Ceedee Lamb defending his quarterback.

1381
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:42,400
Speaker 1: I mean he was gonna get criticized regardless no matter

1382
01:08:42,439 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 1: how he played, unless he didn't throw or zero interceptions

1383
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: if you did. If you did throw zero interceptions, everybody

1384
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 1: would have been on the school. Just because he threw pace.

1385
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,679
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna be on him. That everybody that was great.

1386
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 1: But he plays for Dallas Cowboys. He's number four, he's

1387
01:08:57,960 --> 01:09:00,840
Speaker 1: off starting quarterbet So that's what coming with it with

1388
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:03,840
Speaker 1: my boy and know that. So it is what it is.

1389
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 1: We're gonna work. We're gonna work. Ceedee lamb Um, just

1390
01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 1: like he defended Brett or put through his support behind

1391
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,719
Speaker 1: Brett Maher on the bench last week, supporting dad because

1392
01:09:13,720 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: he knows how good dad can be. I think that's

1393
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:18,679
Speaker 1: part of what made this so frustrating for Lamb and

1394
01:09:18,680 --> 01:09:21,640
Speaker 1: and guys like Greg Rosenthal that he didn't show up

1395
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:23,439
Speaker 1: in this game. I mean, it will be a tough offseason.

1396
01:09:23,479 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: It kind of it mirrors to me, like, wait, what

1397
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: happened to Daniel Jones and the Giants? Oh, you've faced

1398
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 1: the Eagles defense that basically has dismantled people left and right.

1399
01:09:31,400 --> 01:09:33,160
Speaker 1: The Niners have been doing this. It's again, it's the

1400
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:35,799
Speaker 1: focus on Brock Party, this rookie Cord. Well, the defense

1401
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: has been destroying people week after week and turning good

1402
01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks into lesser. I'm glad you brought up Party because

1403
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,759
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a whole week to talk about it. Um,

1404
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:47,719
Speaker 1: But a little bit sobering for Purdy, who gets large.

1405
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: Although he did get better in the second half as

1406
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:53,040
Speaker 1: there he was improved some throws, didn't have a big

1407
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: game by any means, and now he has to go

1408
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,439
Speaker 1: against the Philly defense that I think is even better

1409
01:09:57,439 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 1: than the Dallas defense. So we'll see how that go.

1410
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:04,160
Speaker 1: But ultimately San Francisco moves on there. They have not

1411
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:07,280
Speaker 1: lost in a very long time. And uh, I don't

1412
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 1: think who shoot, I don't know, I haven't thought it.

1413
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:11,680
Speaker 1: This is a tough one to pick, by the way,

1414
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:13,760
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. N title game is gonna be

1415
01:10:13,760 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 1: a bonkers affair. Well, as of this taping, I think

1416
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: both lines next week are two points are under, which

1417
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 1: is crazy. I saw some analytics site which like put

1418
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 1: the percentage of which teams will win the Super Bowl

1419
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 1: and like everyone's between twenty three and It's pretty rare

1420
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: to have four teams. They have their strengths and weaknesses,

1421
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:38,200
Speaker 1: and the Mahomes injury looms certainly, but that like, I

1422
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:40,280
Speaker 1: feel like they're about all equal to win the Super

1423
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,280
Speaker 1: that we've got the four best teams. Is there anyone?

1424
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:46,120
Speaker 1: Is there any debate? I think I'm confident we do.

1425
01:10:46,360 --> 01:10:48,320
Speaker 1: There is one other big injury that looms coming out

1426
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:51,320
Speaker 1: of this game. Christian McCaffrey had a rap on his

1427
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:53,400
Speaker 1: calf in the second half of this game when they

1428
01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 1: were trying to ice the game. On their last possession,

1429
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: he gets the ball once on a weird wide receiver

1430
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 1: like screen type thing, but otherwise it was Elijah Mitchell. Uh.

1431
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:05,640
Speaker 1: He only had ten carries in this game. McCaffrey, So

1432
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:09,800
Speaker 1: what is his physical health going into the biggest game

1433
01:11:09,800 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: of his I don't want Christian McCaffrey suffering another injury

1434
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: until they've won the Super Bowl and he like stubs

1435
01:11:15,320 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 1: his toe mowing the lawn and deal with that for

1436
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: two weeks. I don't think he's ever going to mow

1437
01:11:19,080 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: his lawn well again if he ever has. You know what,

1438
01:11:21,680 --> 01:11:24,839
Speaker 1: he's kind of a bay. He drops a bag, drops

1439
01:11:24,840 --> 01:11:27,559
Speaker 1: a bag of drops a bag of fives and tens

1440
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 1: and coins on his life. Well, I mean it works

1441
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,760
Speaker 1: too because his dad was an NFL player, That's what

1442
01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 1: I mean. But that's like a d n that's a

1443
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: better NFL player than McCaffrey every ever mowed the lawn.

1444
01:11:38,200 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 1: Just answer no. But I would say, like, the reason

1445
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:42,840
Speaker 1: he's an NFL players not because his dad's wealthiest. Because

1446
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:45,559
Speaker 1: he's like his DNA and his genetics are superior to

1447
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,120
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the population. And and one thing

1448
01:11:48,160 --> 01:11:50,880
Speaker 1: I've noticed here, you know, working at NFL Network where

1449
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys have their sons who are

1450
01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:57,719
Speaker 1: becoming great players. He has excellent instruction and like playing

1451
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,840
Speaker 1: football all the time since you were four because your dad,

1452
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, that's an amazing advantage. And Dalton

1453
01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 1: Schultz's dad didn't play football. Is that what you're trying

1454
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 1: to say? Now, He shouldn't know. He didn't know the

1455
01:12:09,479 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 1: rules about not going back and then to not get

1456
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,280
Speaker 1: that foot done. We could have seen the hail mary.

1457
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:16,360
Speaker 1: If West was here. I knew he would, he would

1458
01:12:16,400 --> 01:12:18,760
Speaker 1: mention this. It would have been like the Cowboys in

1459
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:21,719
Speaker 1: the Divisional round throwing a hail mary. That is where

1460
01:12:21,720 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 1: the Hail Mary was Born Cowboys Vikings game. But this

1461
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: Cowboys team does not afford us that they didn't even

1462
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 1: get to don't. So the Cowboys go home again. It's

1463
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: been thirty years since they've been to the MNASY title game.

1464
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:40,799
Speaker 1: I think even more now, is it? That's a bad streak? Um?

1465
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 1: All right, So what do we learn? Football is still great? Um?

1466
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,800
Speaker 1: The football? Uh? We could have, we could have had.

1467
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:51,400
Speaker 1: We didn't get a classic, but we got a classic

1468
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,320
Speaker 1: week of matchups coming up Conference championship weekend. Let's look

1469
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:59,200
Speaker 1: at it real quick. Here San Francisco at Philadelphia noon

1470
01:12:59,680 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 1: five at the link. As I said, so that will

1471
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: be Greg Olsen, who had an excellent game. By the way,

1472
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,280
Speaker 1: that Olsen so good. I do not want. I don't

1473
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:11,840
Speaker 1: think there's no way Tom Brady is retiring. But if

1474
01:13:11,880 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: Tom Brady retires and starts his three fifty million dollar

1475
01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 1: Fox contract and takes Greg Olsen's number one spot, it's

1476
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:21,240
Speaker 1: a travesty. You can't do that. But they also here's

1477
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:22,519
Speaker 1: the thing that we can. You can't make it a

1478
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: three man booth and throw Brady into that either put

1479
01:13:25,160 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 1: him on the Booger mobile. I can't do that either.

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Speaker 1: I want to put a sandwich on Brady never ends

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01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 1: up taking that job completely. I wouldn't even take you

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01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 1: on that because I don't see that happening, because like, well,

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01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 1: he'll either pass on that or it'll just be like

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01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 1: the Murdocks get to bring him to corporate events and

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01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:45,759
Speaker 1: he shows up five times a year. You've had that theory,

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01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's why. That's what's the direction.

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Speaker 1: There was like people Tom has made a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: He's you know, but uh, one of the reasons, yeah,

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Speaker 1: one of the reasons why he is rich as he's

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Speaker 1: made good decisions finance actually, so turning down thrender fifty

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Speaker 1: million dollars because he's bored of the idea. Now, I

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Speaker 1: don't I don't see it. I just think, like, when

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Speaker 1: it comes down to it, does he want to be

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01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 1: at the nacho bar with Ross Tucker and the Tucker spreads? Uh,

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01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 1: you know before the game? You really think he's gonna

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01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:20,160
Speaker 1: be showing up to there are different levels Kansas City

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01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:23,599
Speaker 1: and doing all this everywhere. I just don't think he's

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01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 1: gonna I think he's gonna be like I have. I

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01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: know that's a lot of money, but I've got a

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Speaker 1: lot of money in the end. I don't want to

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01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 1: remember here when it's been years now and now Dion

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01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: is a major head coach of a D one program

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01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:39,800
Speaker 1: UM in college. Um, but Dion was different than all

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01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 1: the other guys. Dion, amongst the analysts, had his own

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01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: green room that no one else could access. Didn't get

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01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: that Brady money though. The money's He's not going to

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01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,640
Speaker 1: be hanging out of there like I don't think that.

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01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:54,599
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he has to be up there. Uh,

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01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: she's not gonna be game. Doesn't see those guys have

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: no concern Tom Brady, the Nacho line and all this

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01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 1: stuff that the normal plebeians are participating in the other games.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to get in that elevator. You can't

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01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 1: get out. Like he's gonna be in the elevator. You're

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01:15:08,439 --> 01:15:11,560
Speaker 1: gonna be next to Zach Berman and bow Wolf, like

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01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson and Land Ranch. I mean, he's just flashing blood.

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01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 1: He's a man. I just think he'll be too bored

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01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:20,559
Speaker 1: by it all too. He's just not even gonna want

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01:15:20,600 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: to bother. He thinks that's boring. Wait till he retires

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01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,479
Speaker 1: and see what else around there? He did retire. How

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01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:28,640
Speaker 1: long did that take? Three weeks? This keeps you in

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01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: the public eye, you know, involved with something that you love.

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01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: Everybody's saying you're the greatest. Who's talking about Troy Aikman.

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01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:36,680
Speaker 1: Had he decided he was too bored to do this,

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01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 1: like thirty years from now, Tom Brady will be like

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01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 1: a historical very large historical memory. Or he can be

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01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: on television the rest of his life an elevator on

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01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: the nacho line, don't project. I'm not I am turning

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01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 1: down your three million contract that already signed because I

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01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:58,400
Speaker 1: don't want nachos. I don't think he uh, it just

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01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:03,600
Speaker 1: wouldn't be in a just not in You know, we

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01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:05,640
Speaker 1: wonder why we always have a ninety minutes show that

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01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:09,400
Speaker 1: we do a solid line the Bengals at the Chiefs

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01:16:09,439 --> 01:16:14,960
Speaker 1: three thirty pm Eastern Arrowhead three Pacific, And I like

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01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: that you noon earlier because I think Pacific should start

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01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 1: to be the standard time. Three pm Eastern Game one,

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01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: six pm Eastern Game two. And then right after that

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Speaker 1: you tune into The Round the NFL podcast streaming live,

1538
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:33,640
Speaker 1: and then you check out the audio show because you

1539
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 1: gotta get it twice. Good stuff, Um, thank you, everybody

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Speaker 1: for listening. You have any other thoughts, Mark, I mean

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01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,680
Speaker 1: the music is playing. I think it's time to reassess it,

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01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: where we're at in life and start over. We'll be

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01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 1: back on Tuesday with our first look at Championship weekend.

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Speaker 1: Until then, you know what you gotta do, The call