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Speaker 1: The Around the NFL Podcast. Oh Sunday night, Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the Around the NFL Podcast. My

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Speaker 1: some heroes, Mark Sessler and Chris Westling. What's up boys?

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Speaker 1: Divisional Round? Weekend in the books? And then there were

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Speaker 1: four that's how it works, four teams remaining after the

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Speaker 1: games of this weekend, one instant classic is starting to

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Speaker 1: look like for a while there that we were gonna,

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Speaker 1: you know, rocking over eight uh in the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: terms of exciting games in the fourth quarter. But then

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Speaker 1: a game that happened to be played in Dallas saved

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Speaker 1: our bacon as football fans, and we can't wait to

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Speaker 1: talk about that game. Uh. Mark, I know you are

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Speaker 1: just you know, we're taping a little later here because

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Speaker 1: of the faux ice storm in Kansas City. I know

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Speaker 1: you are excited and ready to rock. I know that

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Speaker 1: the minute that I received a text from Greg a

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Speaker 1: couple of days ago, a lerning really all of us

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Speaker 1: to the fact that the NFL decided that an ice

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Speaker 1: storm that was still two days away from hitting Kansas

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Speaker 1: City would be enough to move the game, you know,

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Speaker 1: up six seven hours later. Why not, Right, let's stay

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Speaker 1: up as late as possible. We're probably catching some people

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Speaker 1: in London by the time this releases. They're on their

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Speaker 1: way to work already, so we're you know, let's go

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Speaker 1: internationally jarring if we can with the late games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: here's the good news. Um well, the best news, of course,

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Speaker 1: is the Houston Texans aren't in the playoffs anymore. The

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Speaker 1: second best news is that we have a final four

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Speaker 1: uh of teams that are all peaking. Uh in a really,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you're always peaking if you get to the

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Speaker 1: championship Sunday games. But here's a little status on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: The final four teams combined to a thirty and two

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Speaker 1: in the last uh eight games. Uh. And that tells

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Speaker 1: you the story of teams that are ready west to

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Speaker 1: take that Lombardi and raise it high. Only one can

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Speaker 1: do it, though. For the thirteenth time in fourteen years,

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Speaker 1: the a f C will be sending one of Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger or Peyton Manning to the Super Bowl. This

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Speaker 1: is also I tweeted this out these and I got

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Speaker 1: this from NFL Media Research. The seven millionth consecutive year,

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Speaker 1: either the Steelers, the Patriots or both those teams are

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Speaker 1: playing in the title game. I mean, he really does

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Speaker 1: feel like going back to you know, our our team. Ye,

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Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's as much as things seem to change,

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Speaker 1: they really don't on any level. All Right, So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about all four games. And yes, as I said,

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Speaker 1: be uh foolhardy not to start there, you know, it

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Speaker 1: would behoove us to start with what happened in North Texas.

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Speaker 1: Uh when in in the in ninety eight seconds of

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Speaker 1: six crazy twists of turns and events and this was

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Speaker 1: the final one that sent the Packers onto the NFC

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Speaker 1: title Game. So here we are, folks, one kick away

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Speaker 1: from the NFC Championship Game. From the forty one Brett

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Speaker 1: Good on the snap, Jake hung the whole left task

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Speaker 1: park fifty one yard field. Gold taps snap placement kick

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Speaker 1: to the up prize. He hit his right to the

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Speaker 1: Packers to the same championship game. Dwayne Larry w T.

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Speaker 1: And this is when you get excited because the local

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Speaker 1: guys on the radio calls now that they can smell

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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium and Super Bowl fifty one and the trips

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Speaker 1: I called the super Bowl it's personal stakes for these men. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: you know who else is game was personal? Four? Greg

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal NFL Networks, Greg the Rosenthal. In fact, hey is

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Speaker 1: that Ential Networks? Yes it is, and now he joins

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Speaker 1: us from Texas. I mean, listen, you're appeal like the

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Speaker 1: old one. I like the sultry voice of Frags better

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Speaker 1: Yes it is, Greg? Can you name that voice? Well

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Speaker 1: that's David really our our death editors just want to

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Speaker 1: make sure you're still down on his level. Still remember

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Speaker 1: his voice? More importantly, why does it make you uncomfortable?

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Speaker 1: And you like that the other one is better? Let's

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Speaker 1: because I'm not into almost got you all? Right? Here

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Speaker 1: we go, Greg. You were at um A T and

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Speaker 1: and the and the scene in Big D today. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it was so fitting for them to win

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Speaker 1: that that was what to find that game was? There

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Speaker 1: their offense. That Rogers, you know, waits three or four seconds,

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Speaker 1: it's unbelievable that it keeps working. It was one of

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Speaker 1: heard Troy Aikman before a game say that Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: moves Troy Aikman to make those states. It's it's uncanny

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Speaker 1: how many different things it seems like Aaron Rodgers does

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Speaker 1: one to Cook was unbelievable. That's throwing. And Cook pointed

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Speaker 1: thought for the last you know, thirties and thirty five

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Speaker 1: We didn't want somehow the Chiefs steal this game and

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Speaker 1: then get destroyed up in Foxborough, which which the way

431
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Speaker 1: things have gone for the Patriots this year, with some

432
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,480
Speaker 1: of the breaks they've caught on their schedule, you thought

433
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,360
Speaker 1: that could have happened. But instead we'll get the Steelers

434
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:05,919
Speaker 1: going up there. And I think it was a blip

435
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:07,640
Speaker 1: on the radar with their offense. I don't think there's

436
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,120
Speaker 1: any reason to think that they're now in a funk

437
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:11,800
Speaker 1: or something. I think they just struggle a little bit

438
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 1: in the red zone and that's not gonna be a

439
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: norm right. It's a blip on the radar. But in

440
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,439
Speaker 1: a game where they looked rather punchless on offense, you

441
00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: still have a hundred and seventy yards for Levy on Bell,

442
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: you still have a hundred yards for Antonio Brown. So

443
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,280
Speaker 1: it's really you got it. It's you're not going to

444
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:27,959
Speaker 1: be able to hold both these guys down. If you're

445
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:29,400
Speaker 1: in in New England, you have to have to find

446
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 1: a way to almost outscore them if they get hot. Well,

447
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,680
Speaker 1: on a day when you see the Cowboys offensive line

448
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: get a lot of hype and the Packers offensive line

449
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,160
Speaker 1: get a lot of love for giving Aaron Rodgers time

450
00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: to throw, the Steelers had the best offensive line performance

451
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Speaker 1: of the day. Big Benden get touched into a coverage

452
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Speaker 1: sack in the fourth quarter, and they opened up holes

453
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Speaker 1: for Levy on Bell. This is a great offensive line,

454
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 1: by the way, if I am not mistaken, in my

455
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 1: memory is foggy about whatever happened last week and Thursday's

456
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Speaker 1: previews show. But I believe that I locked this up

457
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: over the guy we just got off the phone, Oh

458
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: ducks out just in time to lose his lock off.

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Speaker 1: Congrats Mark, you got off the nine, that is, if

460
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Speaker 1: my memory is correct. I believe it is. And and

461
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 1: you were attempted to disgrace yourself with the Patriots pick

462
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,560
Speaker 1: and you didn't do it, and I think the football

463
00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:25,320
Speaker 1: gods rewarded you. That would have worked out equally well.

464
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: So you know, it's all a push, But I'm happy

465
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Speaker 1: that I did it with Pittsburgh guests. So how do

466
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,679
Speaker 1: we fix the Chiefs? I mean, is this their ceiling

467
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: as long as Alex Smith is the quarterback? I tend

468
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: to think it is. It'll help if Jeremy Macklin and

469
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,480
Speaker 1: Justin Houston come back healthy, because they weren't playing at

470
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: full strength in this game. But I I just don't

471
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Speaker 1: think that you're going to beat Tom Brady or Ben

472
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Speaker 1: Roethlisberger with Alex like, if you add playmakers, can Alex

473
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Speaker 1: Smith make the most of them? I just think that

474
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Speaker 1: he's he's overly pounded in terms of like the people

475
00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 1: just view him less than he is. But at the

476
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:00,400
Speaker 1: same time, as ceiling when you get to this point

477
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: in the NFL season, his ceiling is limiting. He doesn't

478
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: use the whole field. I mean, he doesn't like to

479
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: throw down fifteen to twenty yards. It's one of the

480
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: biggest players in the game. Came on a downfield throw

481
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: attempt during Macklin got a step on, a defender had

482
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 1: a touch on he put her over the wrong shoulder.

483
00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: Macklin couldn't make the adjustment and that was another opportunity

484
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: that went by the boards. And and I don't know

485
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 1: if you guys noticed, but um, Chris Collins Earth was

486
00:25:24,680 --> 00:25:27,399
Speaker 1: subtly assassinating Alex Smith for three and a half hours

487
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,640
Speaker 1: in this game. Uh you could tell Collins with as

488
00:25:29,640 --> 00:25:32,119
Speaker 1: a guy that's like, uh, you know, sees the field

489
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: and and and the ways that other people don't because

490
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,639
Speaker 1: he's really good at his job. I saw Alex Smith

491
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 1: leave a ton of yardage on the field, not making plays,

492
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Speaker 1: not seeing receivers not making throws. So it was a

493
00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,159
Speaker 1: bad day for Smith when entered this game, and that

494
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: was another reason why I had, as it turned out,

495
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Speaker 1: talked myself into The Chiefs had played very well in

496
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Speaker 1: the postseason, including a couple just stellar games both with

497
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Speaker 1: San Francisco and Kansas City. But this was kind of

498
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,720
Speaker 1: like the worst version of Alex Smith, which isn't terrible,

499
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Speaker 1: but it just not good enough, and the Chiefs have

500
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Speaker 1: to figure out if if this is the guy to

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Speaker 1: go forward. With the fourth highest quarterback rating in the

502
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Speaker 1: playoffs among active quarterbacks, but that doesn't speak to necessarily

503
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 1: what you're talking about West that can he do what

504
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 1: Big Ben can do with the weapons around him. He

505
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,200
Speaker 1: needs everyone around him to be playing at absolute top

506
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Speaker 1: level the way they did on Christmas Night against the Broncos,

507
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Speaker 1: and that they fell very far short today. It's a

508
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: small enough sample size his postseason career that a couple

509
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: of games can skew it, and when you're playing against

510
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: the Colts defense, in the Saints defense and games that

511
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,199
Speaker 1: he went absolutely bonkers, and to his credit, played awesome

512
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 1: in those games, but those weren't like shut down playoff

513
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: defense as he was facing um, I will say, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the foot locker line was kind of funny. Though the

515
00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: referee can't even get a job with foot that's not

516
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Speaker 1: a bad line. We have to be so serious around here. Oh,

517
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,720
Speaker 1: he's now earned himself probably the lead in this week's

518
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Speaker 1: Get off my Gridland Gridiron column. Oh that is we

519
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: have we talked about that yet we haven't. Wes is

520
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,439
Speaker 1: new column a NFL dot Com where you just you

521
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,959
Speaker 1: get a chance. It's kind of your version of Connor

522
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: or are you kidding me? You kind of get stuff

523
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,400
Speaker 1: off your chest. It allows you to kind of move

524
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: forward as a man and not get bogged down by

525
00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: all the things that anger is or kidding West. It's

526
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: like a combination of or you kidding me? Mike podcast

527
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,920
Speaker 1: persona and the old man shaking his fist at the clouds. Well,

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00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: you're saying this is a persona is who you actually are?

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00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: I would have seen. I don't think that I am

530
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,159
Speaker 1: in real life exactly as crotchety as I am on.

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Speaker 1: So this is a character that you've been spewing out

532
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: this whole Everyone in this room is a bit of

533
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: a character created by Dan Hanses. Wait a second, now

534
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: you're turning it around me. You have You've taken pride

535
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,800
Speaker 1: and said I am who I am. If you don't

536
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 1: like it, get out the back door. It's about me.

537
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: You're saying that's all phony, your actor, that it's about me.

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00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 1: Drop has been taken out of context all along. One

539
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: last thing, Levan Bell, I just want to let you

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Speaker 1: guys know, and maybe West can make it into your

541
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: column this week. At all um he did not um.

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00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: He did not watch any football before the game. I

543
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:09,080
Speaker 1: was I wasn't nervous about the game. But I don't

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00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: watchesvn R NFL Live because I know they'll talk about

545
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: the game. I don't necessarily want to think about the game.

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00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,199
Speaker 1: I watched stuff like Happy Feed. You were of that

547
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,159
Speaker 1: animated feature, Mark, you have two young boys. I know

548
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: they watch a slew of animated features, not that I

549
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: know of Happy. This is a phenomenon. I think in

550
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: the NFL, a lot of these guys watch cartoons to

551
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 1: turn their brains off. Phenomena. I'd call it something else,

552
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: but I'm I'm much rather watch Tom and Jerry than

553
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,080
Speaker 1: that other network and Jerry. Tom and Jerry even the

554
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 1: air anymore. I feel like it's probably like it's a

555
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: classic not allowed to be played. There's probably something, uh

556
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:48,719
Speaker 1: maybe that's why. I think probably the distribution rights ran

557
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,640
Speaker 1: out on that on that production. All right, let's move

558
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: on now to the Saturday games and let's head to

559
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: oh the Joe Jadome. There was some locking going on there.

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00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 1: Ryan the snapsleat Hawks rush four, Matt Louse left, gonna

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00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 1: throw what open talk touchdown Kevin Tolman in Atlanta nine

562
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:15,120
Speaker 1: plays ninety nine yards to fifty five for number two.

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Speaker 1: Yes West Durham of w z g C with the call.

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00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Falcons entered this game with one of the

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Speaker 1: best offenses in the league, arguably the best offense in

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Speaker 1: the league, maybe not even arguably, But then they went

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00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: out and said, we're just as getting the postseason as

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Speaker 1: we are in the regular season, So get rid of

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Speaker 1: that narrative. Matt Ryan through for three and thirty eight

570
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Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns, and the Atlanta Falcons rolled at

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Speaker 1: home thirty six to twenty win over the Seattle Seahawks.

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00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: Oh I think we got a double up top West. Yeah, yeah, see.

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Speaker 1: I told you I was touched by a higher spirit

574
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: on this game, and it played out almost exactly how

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00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: I thought it would and Earl Thomas we kind of

576
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: talked about this in the weeks going up that was

577
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: that showed up again in this game as that the

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00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: Falcons attacked Tevin Coleman made a juke move or devote Freeman,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, made a juke move on Stephen Terrell. Terrell,

580
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: who is the backup to Earl Thomas, that that man

581
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: may never recover from the Falcons. Mark, we're just playing

582
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: at a different level than the Seahawks, which was still

583
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Speaker 1: even though you knew this was not the Seahawks season necessarily,

584
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: it was still a little weird to see them getting

585
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Speaker 1: bullied in January the way they did. Yeah, I watched

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00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: this game at a seaside bar and thought that it

587
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 1: played out as you said, Dan, the way that I

588
00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: think most of us in this studio, if not all

589
00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 1: of us, thought it would it that the Seattle would

590
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: make plays and hang around to some degree. That was

591
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: a very entertaining game out of the gate. But Atlanta

592
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,520
Speaker 1: is just too powerful, and I think that's why we

593
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: are set up for an absolutely phenomenal NFC title game,

594
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,600
Speaker 1: because these are two premiere offenses going back to back

595
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: on each other, not a whole lot of defense to

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Speaker 1: speak of in Atlanta. They showed you yesterday. They had

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00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: I think it was like five or six guys with

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00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: three with four or four plus catches. They can spread

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00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: the ball around in a way and just take you out.

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Speaker 1: There's no way with you or without Earl Thomas. I

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00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: think Seattle had a chance to to to outpower Atlanta

602
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Speaker 1: in this game. I was fascinated by this first quarter,

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00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: starting with dan Quinn's decision to defer on the coin toss.

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00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: Seattle comes down and is clinical on the opening drive,

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00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: opening touchdown drive, and then what people saw if they

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00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,720
Speaker 1: haven't watched the Falcons offense, oh year, Matt Ryan answers

607
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: right back and for the seventh consecutive game, the Falcons

608
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 1: open with a touchdown drive. No one's ever done that before,

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00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: and it's representative of what this Falcon's offense does. While

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00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: basically the country has slept on them all season. Do

611
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: not do not assume that just because Aaron Rodgers is hot,

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00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: that he's coming in to Atlanta and beating this team.

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00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: The Falcons are for real, and that kind of drive

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00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: went against some of the ways that they've scored. It

615
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: was a seven plus minute march normally Atlanta, they can

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Speaker 1: also score so quickly that you have to be able

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00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: to turn around and do the same thing to them.

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Speaker 1: But they showed that they could eat up the clock

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Speaker 1: there as well and almost almost keep Seattle off the field,

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00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: and you know, squelch that momentum that they had built.

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Speaker 1: Atlanta's just too much. I don't I think that they

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00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: You're looking at the m v P quarterback surrounded by weapons.

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Speaker 1: I I don't understand how they get taken out at home.

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00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: Green Bay is a different story. We'll see Jordy Nelson's injured,

625
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: Davante Adams has an ankle that he had today and

626
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: he came back in the game. But that's two guys.

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00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: They don't use their running game a lot. And then

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00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,479
Speaker 1: you see the Falcons and they have thirteen different players

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00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: with touchdowns and the best backfield. And it's not just

630
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: Juleo Jones and Matt Ryan, DeVante Freeman and Tevin Coleman

631
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: are incredible. UH. This game to me turned at ten

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00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: seven Seattle with the lead ten thirty four to play

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Speaker 1: in the second quarter. UH, Atlanta punts the ball away.

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00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,280
Speaker 1: Devin Hester had an incredible game. UH takes the punt

635
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: back seventy nine yards inside Seattle. Uh Atlanta's ten yard line,

636
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, whoa, they're down ten seven. They could

637
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 1: be down seventeen seven, and all of a sudden, the

638
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: pressures on Atlanta and maybe they're getting tight in this

639
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: big spot. But no, uh, there's a there's a hole

640
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: down the play, it backs up. It turns out to

641
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: be essentially an eighty four yard penalty, backs up Seattle,

642
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: and then this happens. Wilson under center rows the single

643
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Speaker 1: back too tights here to the right. Now they bring

644
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: Bald into that side. Singer, We're saver to the forest.

645
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: Wilson foul down? Is it a safety? Is it a safety?

646
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: It is? He came out from under center, justin Brett

647
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: and Foull to the ground all Ben Garland is in

648
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: the middle and he blows the center up and Wilson

649
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 1: stumbles because one of his offense he've lineman, stepped on

650
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: his foot. That offensive lineman was a backup guard, Jermaine

651
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: Iffetti had left the game with a leg injury. He

652
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: came back immediately after this play. Probably not a coincidence.

653
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: The backup guard stepped on will and he falls down.

654
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: He gets touched down for the safety. It's ten nine

655
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: free kick back to Atlanta. They kick a field goal

656
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: to go ahead twelve ten and they never look back.

657
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: I thought that was when this game turned. And uh,

658
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: it just showed how how the Falcons, uh, we're not

659
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: going to let this game get away. They made the

660
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: players got a little lucky on a holdum. That game

661
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: turned on that, but also vindicated dan Quinn's decision to

662
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: defer because the Falcons ran away with the game. They

663
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: scored on a ninety nine yard touchdown drive, a field goal,

664
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: then got the ball to start the second half with

665
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: a touchdown drive to start the third quarter, and before

666
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: you know it is twenty six to ten, and deferring

667
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: and getting the ball in the second half came up

668
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 1: big for the Falcons. Well now, and that whole sequence

669
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: wiped out a big play by Devin Hester, who set

670
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: out to the game that he's probably that's it, it's

671
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: it's the it's a career for him. I think he is.

672
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: He's the best to do what he's done. That's been

673
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 1: a newsroom debate from the minute I got there, and

674
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think it's he's a special

675
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 1: guy that some of the stuff he's done. We could

676
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: travel decades before and he one matches it, especially with

677
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 1: the way that the kicking in the return game has

678
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: the rules have changed the return game. Um, by the

679
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 1: way Michael Bennett come back to us, I knew this

680
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: was gonna come up. I mean, I know firsthand that

681
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 1: this guy doesn't handle losing well as uh as loyal

682
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: listeners are aware of. But you know, he went after

683
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: a reporter after the game, and um, you know, basically

684
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: really got after the guy and then asked, what have

685
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: you had to face in your life in terms of adversity?

686
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: This reporter happened to be a cancer survivor, and uh,

687
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett foot enter mouth and he he didn't have

688
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: a great game, uh in terms of uh, you know,

689
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: he was very He played a little out of control times.

690
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: He also made some plays, But the Seattle defense with

691
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett just wasn't wasn't the same After Earl Thomas

692
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,160
Speaker 1: gott heard but West, what one thing we talked about

693
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: and we talked about leading up to the game, trying

694
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: to figure out how Seattle could win this game. There's

695
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: still a lot of great players on this defense. How

696
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: come they weren't able to make a bigger impact in

697
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: this game. Well, I think the Falcons offense is that good.

698
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,319
Speaker 1: It's just they're that good, yes, and I think they

699
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: have been all year. They average thirty five points per

700
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 1: game at home, which is almost unheard of. They are

701
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: suited to playing on that fast track too. And then

702
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: on the other side of the ball, if you're the

703
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: Seahawks and you want to get back to the point

704
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 1: where you're better than the Falcons, you cannot, ever year

705
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 1: keep giving Tom Cable, the offensive line coach, players who

706
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: wouldn't even make other rosters and asked him to turn

707
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: them into starters. And that explains their poor showing on

708
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: the road all year long. That has to be Yeah,

709
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: they finished three five and one on the road. They

710
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: that has to be their major point of emphasis this

711
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,680
Speaker 1: offseason is finding a better way to protect their their

712
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback and also get their running game going again.

713
00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm envious of at least they have an

714
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: exact knowledge of what they need to do. Whether they

715
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: can actually plug it is is the difference. But they

716
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,919
Speaker 1: they really showed again they do not have a good

717
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: offensive line. Do we, oh sorry, do we think that

718
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: Paul richardson what we've seen over the past two games.

719
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: He again yesterday, absolutely phenomenal game. Does this carry over

720
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,960
Speaker 1: into next season or is this this year's sort of

721
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,799
Speaker 1: Jeff Janice figure that blows up in January? Well, I mean,

722
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Chris Matthews in the Super Bowl. What

723
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 1: they lost that game. I think there's a happy medium there.

724
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 1: I think he's more skilled than Chris Matthews and Jeff Janie.

725
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: He's more reliable than both of those guys. But a

726
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: healthy Tyler Lockett is a better player, and he's not

727
00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: gonna push Locket out of the starting job opposite Balbwin.

728
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: He'll play in three receiver sets. Who knows what they'll

729
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: do with Jamaine Curse, who they love. Is a development

730
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: for them. I think this will be the deepest wide

731
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,600
Speaker 1: receiver corps next year. That Russell Wilson's overhead, Matt Ryan

732
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: against Aaron Rodgers in a Dome against uh with two defenses,

733
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: and I know Atlanta's defense has played better in recent weeks.

734
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,959
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna struggle. You saw in the first

735
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: half of this game that Seahawks wide receivers. We're having

736
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: their way with the Falcons cornerbacks and they have the

737
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: worst red zone defense in the NFL. It would not

738
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: surprise me at all if we saw something like that

739
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: Bronchos Cowboys game from a couple of years ago, where

740
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: it was and how big was Adrian Claiborne's out for

741
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs with a bicep injury. How big a loss

742
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 1: is that? Do you think He's been their second best

743
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:23,279
Speaker 1: pass rusher behind Vick Beasley. So it's a pretty significant loss.

744
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: But they are a faster, harder hitting defense than we've

745
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: seen in the past. They just don't play great past defense. Alright, Uh, sid,

746
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: why don't we get Mr Rosenthal back on the phone,

747
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: Greg laying potentially nude on his bedspread. I don't know

748
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:45,359
Speaker 1: that that's mark, you said in a private text conversation,

749
00:38:45,800 --> 00:38:47,880
Speaker 1: that's what was happening. Well, I think it's it's funny

750
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: to me that Greg denies it, but I'll let him there.

751
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: It was not true when he first suggested, but I thought,

752
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: I thought Mars got an idea here, and I've been

753
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: hind it out fantastic. Alright, Well, with that said, quite

754
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: a visual Greg is completely naked. People just kind of

755
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: focus on football as we head to the throne of ease.

756
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: Dian Lewis waits to our right on a kick that

757
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 1: forces him to scramble left fielding from the three across

758
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,240
Speaker 1: the tent right to the fifteen stage left. The twenty

759
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: cuts it back right at thet try to get outside

760
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: of the fifty. How running the Texans on the right

761
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: side of Goodbye, Lewis takes it to the house. Watchdown Patriots,

762
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: Tuma party ninety nine rds but number thirty three and

763
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 1: the roof just came off. The roof is the room?

764
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: Totally surreal? Call? I said, I swear to got the

765
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: color guy. He's just the guy that wont a fan contest.

766
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: He's yelling go Bob Soci and Scott Zolak of w

767
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: b Z with the call yes you heard it. Dion Lewis.

768
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:10,400
Speaker 1: Uh had three touchdowns and that was his his kickoff return.

769
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: He also had a receiving touchdown and a rushing touch

770
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: And I believe the first human to ever do this

771
00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 1: in the playoffs? True? Is that a true fact? How

772
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 1: about that? Uh? And that was more than enough. With

773
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 1: brock Oswaller involved, the New England Patriots, despite looking sluggish

774
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: and a little out of sink of times ease their

775
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 1: way to a thirty four sixteen win. And uh, you know, Greg,

776
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: you are there, but you know, we gotta start give

777
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: credit where credits due. The man in the in the

778
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: white collared shirt, he demanded that we listened to him

779
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: on Dion Lewis, and Dion Lewis stepped up. Mark you well,

780
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: apparently I was the third person to come up with

781
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 1: that that theory. So I'll sit and I'll sit where

782
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: I sit in third place. Good job by the two

783
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:59,279
Speaker 1: of you. Um, Greg, you um, you have to say,

784
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna I did not get sucked in

785
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 1: when the game was strangely close, uh after at halftime,

786
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: but you have to say that was not exactly the

787
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: performance that you were hoping for or expecting against a

788
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: wretched uh texas well, not a wretched team, but a

789
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: wretched offense led by Brock Oswahler, who was as bad

790
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: as advertising this game not the best Patriots show. Well,

791
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: forget about halftime. It was a one score game and

792
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: Oswailer got the ball with you know, twelve minutes left

793
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: in the game. It was very similar to the Cowboys

794
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 1: Packers and that you know, finally da got the ball,

795
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: you know, with about ten minutes left with in a

796
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: one score game. The difference is, you know, the Cowboys

797
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: have a great quarterback in the in the Texans have

798
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: brock Etsweller, and literally the first play after they worked

799
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 1: so hard to get back to that point is the

800
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: overthrow that got tipped and and he has an interception.

801
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: And yet the Patriots played bad. I mean that they

802
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: sounded after the game and in the seen there like

803
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 1: they could not have been more disappointed, which I think

804
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: almost goes too far the other way. I mean, they

805
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: did just win a playoff game by eight point. This

806
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: was a game in the middle of October. I don't

807
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: know that's what the throne of ease is there. They've

808
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: gotten to the point now where a playoff win isn't

809
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: good enough. You must dominate and embarrass your opponent. And

810
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: the fact that this game was more competitive than it

811
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 1: should have been. And I don't think to Tom Brady

812
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 1: was the sharpest. He threw two picks in this game,

813
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: had some throws that I thought even West even some

814
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 1: of the throws downfield, and maybe I'm not seeing it right,

815
00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: but they kind of chucked him downfield and it worked

816
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: out with his receivers. I don't think your boy Tom

817
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: played that well in this game. Well, he also had

818
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 1: some throws that were absolute yes beauties. Though Julian Edelman

819
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 1: had a fantastic game and carried that offense for stretches.

820
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: So you are gonna you're gonna punt on saying anything

821
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 1: bad about Tom's game? I mean, what do you want? Yeah,

822
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: I thought the Texans play that we kind of got

823
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: to Tom Brady. There's the only way to potentially. I

824
00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 1: got West, I got us here and said West, say

825
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: something bad about Tom Brady. Didn't play miserable, but I

826
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: mean his team won by eighteen points, and he he

827
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: made some beautiful throws. Well, I don't know what all right,

828
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you need to hear is that

829
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney got in his kitchen a couple of times.

830
00:43:14,440 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 1: He got roughed up a little bit. And again, once

831
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: again we saw in January, if you can get Tommy

832
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 1: tassel his hair a little bit and get in his face,

833
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:26,879
Speaker 1: he is not this unstoppable beauty boy. And we saw

834
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,840
Speaker 1: it again, right, and you get within eighteen points of

835
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: beating them. But that had nothing to do with him

836
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: that had everything to do with the quarterback on the

837
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: other side of the field. Brock Osweiler was absolutely horrendous

838
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: in this game. And Mark, we had just talked about

839
00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: um Or I had brought it up to you that

840
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 1: one of the worst fan experiences, as as a fan

841
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: of a team that always has a bad quarterback, is

842
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: when you're bad quarterback makes a throw and then his

843
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: his wide receiver blows it. And when Will Fuller dropped

844
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: the best throw brock Oswalder ever had, all he could

845
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: do is just shake your head and say, this Texans

846
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: team came out knock going to figure this thing out

847
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:03,479
Speaker 1: because you're not going to get another throw from Brock

848
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: like that, because he was terrible all game. Yeah, Greg,

849
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: were you at any point during this game where you

850
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: feeling fidgety, nervous, a little p level rising? Oh? Yeah,

851
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: I was nervous because this was like a no When

852
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: this was a no win situation, it's not a fun

853
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: it's not a fun type of game. You just want

854
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: to get through it, you know, it's not a fun game.

855
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 1: When you're disappointed that that they're only up eleven points

856
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. That's not how it now it

857
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: should be you want to get onto the games against

858
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,760
Speaker 1: the real thing. And when you were texting with minutes

859
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: to go in the game about how dangerous the Texans were,

860
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: had they head quarterback, how complete they were, how impression

861
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: were Was that just high level trolling or was that

862
00:44:43,840 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: were you just being? Was that you in earnest at

863
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: that point? Now you're just making not at all. I

864
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: will find your I will find your text. As these

865
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: guys continue on, do you know that well the Patriots

866
00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:58,919
Speaker 1: go ahead, credit, all right, we'll get Let me just say, Greg,

867
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: let me just say the Patriots are one competent opposition

868
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: quarterback away from getting picked off last night. I guess,

869
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: but they they that's what That's what's coming out of

870
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: this game. But you could look at it the other way,

871
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: which I will, which is that they had a bad game.

872
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 1: That's gonna give They're gonna be ordinery about it. It's

873
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: gonna give Belichick a lot to coach up. Uh. You know,

874
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: whatever bad game that they had, they kind of got

875
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: it out of the way and you would expect it

876
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: to play much better. They also played a team that

877
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,040
Speaker 1: seemed very well prepared to take some things away from

878
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: you mentioned. I mean, they got interior pressure on him

879
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: a ton. They kind of they kind of made them

880
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 1: uncomfortable throughout. And despite all that, you know, they still

881
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: had three d seventy seven yards and what thirty four

882
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,759
Speaker 1: points and they lost the turnover battle three to one,

883
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 1: and they and they still won. I don't think that

884
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,399
Speaker 1: was all Brock. I mean they did. They didn't move

885
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 1: the ball at times, but it's it took like some

886
00:45:58,440 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: crazy raw's like throws like he had. He had more

887
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,760
Speaker 1: great throws in that game than I think most games

888
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: that he has, but he also had some stinkers. And

889
00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,839
Speaker 1: we also went have we seen the Patriots played two

890
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: games in a row where they are underwhelming. I think

891
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: they're going to be fine next week. They'll figure this out.

892
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,800
Speaker 1: You saw plays where Clowney, merciless and Cushing hit Brady.

893
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 1: We saw just as many, if not more, plays where

894
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: Brady had the ball back there for eight or nine

895
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 1: seconds just scanning the field. He had plenty of time

896
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 1: most of that game. He this was this was because

897
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: of Michael Floyd, who the timing was just off. Like

898
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: he thought Michael Floyd was gonna run Arount a certain way,

899
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: and he was. He was ahead of it. And they

900
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 1: count so much on timing and knowing what the receiver

901
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 1: is gonna do that I think they're gonna they're gonna

902
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: take Michael Floyd out behind the wood set or something.

903
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: I got mental healthy, I kinda, I kind of got

904
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: the feeling that he was going to get set to

905
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: the corn fields after that interception. Um, I don't care.

906
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: I don't care what you guys are You guys are

907
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: really spinning for your boy here. Rogers eighteen for thirty

908
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: eight in that game. That was not That was not

909
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:05,440
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Eight team for thirty eight in that game.

910
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 1: Not close to good enough. If you have the Steelers

911
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: coming into your building next week and they play at

912
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: their why are we assuming? Why are we assuming Tom

913
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: Brady is gonna have the same game next week? Did hear?

914
00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: I'm not? I'm saying he can't have this type of

915
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 1: game again. I don't think he will. I don't. By

916
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: the way, he had a bad game in his previous

917
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: playoff game against the good defense, and we're just singing

918
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: the praises of Pittsburgh's defense. Don't just assume Tom is

919
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 1: gonna keep coasting, because now he's gonna start playing some

920
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: real teams and some real quarterbacks deal with it, Westling, Well,

921
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: I feel like we've spent four years on the show

922
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: manufacturing reasons to be concerned about the Patriots. Sure, I mean, well,

923
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: they do lose. Uh, they do lose conference championship games.

924
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: They are two and three. They also win conference championship game. No,

925
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 1: they do, but this is their sixth straight, which is

926
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: a crazy, absolutely ridiculous stat But and I know you

927
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 1: guys aren't gonna feel bad but at all make it

928
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: like if they don't win a title this year, they're

929
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: kind of underperforming. Did you make it to the final years?

930
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: You got to win more than with the narrative constructing, Well,

931
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: that's what we do as we talk about games and

932
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,080
Speaker 1: players and where they aren't. You do not try to

933
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: convince us that the Patriots would be underperforming if they

934
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:21,200
Speaker 1: don't get to the super Bowl for their entire dynasty,

935
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: like they just just gonna mean nothing. Please know that's

936
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: that's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying that they've

937
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: they've gotten this far so many times that you know,

938
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: you want to go at least three and three in

939
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: these in these conferences, right, and you're not traveling to

940
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: Denver this time? You're at home. And if they don't,

941
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: I would I would almost agree. If they don't take

942
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:43,319
Speaker 1: care of business here, then it is a very disappointing

943
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,680
Speaker 1: season for New England because ten days ago we were

944
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: talking about a team that no one could possibly stop

945
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: in the a f C one final thing on brock Oswilder.

946
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: He was set up with a silver platter two weeks

947
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,919
Speaker 1: in a row as far as field position, just give

948
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: in the ball on the shadow of the end zone

949
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: or in the opponent's terrible territory several times, and the

950
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: performance he put up, there's no way this guy can start.

951
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien lost lost me forever in this game. And

952
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,839
Speaker 1: maybe we'll find out more. And maybe I didn't see.

953
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: Maybe something came out after the game. Where's Tom Savage in?

954
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: This is Tom Savage rill? Because I thought he was

955
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: Maybe it was Nick Kate preparing for a role. I

956
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: don't know what it was, but what do they have

957
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: to show? And I thought Burt Brear, who works with

958
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: Peter King now and used to work here, had an

959
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: interesting tweet where he thought that leaving Osweiler in there

960
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: when the game had kind of gotten away and he

961
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: was just playing terribly was potentially sending a sign or

962
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: sending a signal maybe upstairs about this is the guy

963
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: that you've left me with. Uh, and this is not

964
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: gonna cut it going forward if you want this franchise

965
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,439
Speaker 1: to take the next step, because I just I don't

966
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: see any reason why he was still in the game

967
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: about midway through the third quarter and when it was

968
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: very clear he was not going to give this team

969
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:02,400
Speaker 1: the spark they need it. Come on, Bill, Yeah, I

970
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 1: mean it's it's I think that idea of a message

971
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,800
Speaker 1: upstairs is uh. It makes sense, except that Bill O'Brien,

972
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 1: by all accounts, was also part of the you know,

973
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: part of the enthusiasm behind signing Brock Oswelder. He can't

974
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: completely wash his hands of this unless he was, well,

975
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,359
Speaker 1: unless it got dropped in his lap, I don't think. Aren't.

976
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: There are accounts that say that he was definitely part

977
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 1: of this for ten seconds before they signed pen to

978
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 1: paper for the contract. That part I don't like. I

979
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: thought it was partly that he would he didn't want

980
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: to put himself out there. I think if Osweiler had

981
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: played in the first half like he did in the

982
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 1: second half, where he was making more clear mistakes. Even

983
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: though he didn't play well at all, he might have

984
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: made a change. But when you put Savage in it

985
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: when the game was still close, it's almost like it's

986
00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: putting it all on Bill O'Brien. And I don't know

987
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: if he had the stones for it. I thought he.

988
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,919
Speaker 1: I thought he and Pete Carroll. I know you guys

989
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: have already done that game. I assumed you know, they

990
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:02,840
Speaker 1: coached way too conservative for teams that were trailing against

991
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: better teams like O'Brien had a couple of chances to

992
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: go for it on fourth down, or make calls or

993
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: or bench rock, and he kind of chickened out. Well,

994
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: here we go, Greg, you're back in the n FC

995
00:51:14,400 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: title game. Congratulations. Um you know I I there are

996
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: whispers already that you'll be in New England for the

997
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 1: big game next week, and I'm sure you're just pinching yourself. Well,

998
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: you guys say all these Steelers Patriots conference title appearances

999
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: are are boring, But correct me if I'm wrong. I

1000
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:36,000
Speaker 1: don't think we've I don't think we've had one since

1001
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: what two thousand and one that they actually played each

1002
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: other a crazy I don't think that we're saying that

1003
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: New England Pittsburgh is born. I think, if anything, we're

1004
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 1: thankful that we're not getting New England Kansas City, which

1005
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,399
Speaker 1: why even play that game? Yeah, we kind of duck

1006
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: that potential tragedy with thanks to Eric Fisher's holding call.

1007
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:55,399
Speaker 1: But alright, Greg, your boy, Eric Fisher, your boy number one?

1008
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: Pick your favorite player? Um, all right, I don't know

1009
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,239
Speaker 1: why is Eric Fisher? I touch somebody's boy, Greg? Was

1010
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: he not your boy? For a short period there? I

1011
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: thought you were. He used to be a target practice

1012
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: on the podcast for whatever reason, I just link you

1013
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 1: and him. I don't know, right, I don't claim that

1014
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: you knew that you thought well of him? Did you

1015
00:52:13,960 --> 00:52:16,399
Speaker 1: feel a little better today? Have you guys heard, because

1016
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: this is going to be a story. Have you have

1017
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: you heard the whole Antonio Brown post game being put

1018
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: on Facebook Live? Story yet talks get some breaking news,

1019
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:33,839
Speaker 1: Sydney down. This is this is why we have He's

1020
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: that's why he's NFL networks, Greg Rose, what do you got? Greg?

1021
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown? Posted? And it's still up to Facebook Live.

1022
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: The thirteen minutes immediately after the game, where Mike Tomlin

1023
00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: addressed the team, which included many uh swears from him

1024
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: and Ben Roethlisberger's and and talk about the Patriots. But

1025
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 1: the key part a couple of the sprint part where

1026
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 1: Tomlin called them a hole. He said, we spotted these

1027
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: a holes a game and a half and you know,

1028
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,320
Speaker 1: they made us play at night, and we're going to

1029
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: get back, you know, at four in the morning, but

1030
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:15,439
Speaker 1: through them. And then someone who was probably Roethlisberger called

1031
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: them a holes too, So it was it was a

1032
00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:21,440
Speaker 1: lot of fun. So you already here first, um, the

1033
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: Steelers trashing their a f C title game opponent, the

1034
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 1: New England Patriots in their locker room, posted live on

1035
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: social media before Greg hangs up. My favorite part of

1036
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: the video you tweeted of you locking it up this week,

1037
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: which was a beautiful moment, was Greg's hand gestures while

1038
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,840
Speaker 1: you're doing it. You know how excited he gets and

1039
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: he backs up, he gets his chair and he does

1040
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 1: of these fist pumps. It's like that that made my

1041
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,279
Speaker 1: day when I saw the video, Greg kind of like

1042
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 1: channeled a gospel preacher. Can we hear that? Actually, Sydney?

1043
00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: And you know what, guys don't know when you factor

1044
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: something an advantage of that magnitude. Is he going to

1045
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: do it? And then they're at home and they are

1046
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: flying out. It's the same anymore. I'm gonna lock it up,

1047
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: lock it up? There you go. I mean that was

1048
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 1: that's Greg. That's Greg being Greg. Yeah, you were touched

1049
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 1: by God, but I was feeling him within me right there?

1050
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: There you go. All right, Greg Rostal, thank you for

1051
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: joining us for two games. A little history there for

1052
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: the podcast, and we'll see you back here on Tuesday

1053
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:45,320
Speaker 1: by Greg Yes, sir, Networks. The question is why is

1054
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: Greg so uncomfortable about the new drop? That's that's what

1055
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:51,399
Speaker 1: I want to know. Why's so uncomfortable about the new

1056
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: drop of fandom? Hey? Is that NFL Networks? Yes? It is.

1057
00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 1: I mean why I'm not sure? I um, I mean,

1058
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: I will say this. I think he was quite drawn

1059
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: to Alex Fragola's voice and the fact that, you know,

1060
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: her talents are tied to his um but we're not common. Yeah,

1061
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty telling. Why would he feel the

1062
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 1: way he does? You know about any other drop? I

1063
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: can't explain. Here's uh okay, here's the good news and

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Speaker 1: bad news. Bad news. First, um, there are only three

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Speaker 1: games left in the season. The good news they are

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Speaker 1: gonna be three great games. And that's what this upcoming

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Speaker 1: week will be all about. Talking about the uh A,

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Speaker 1: f C and NFC title games. Next Sunday, Uh, we'll

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Speaker 1: determine who goes to the Super Bowl, so that uh,

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Speaker 1: the next time you hear from us will be on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: And um and you know who else I don't know

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Speaker 1: about these games? Who else? Is Mr? Flame? In a second?

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Speaker 1: I was class he is? He is very excited at

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Speaker 1: that one in there, Dan Well, you know, said you

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Speaker 1: gotta let me know when I forget about Mr Flame.

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Speaker 1: It did cross my mind, but it didn't put to paper.

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Speaker 1: I think she just trusted that at some point you

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Speaker 1: were going to get around to our very treasured spots

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Speaker 1: or new money has something cooking a little heat towards

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Speaker 1: Mr Flame and was like, uh, let me take a

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Speaker 1: little shot out. Are you starting in trouble right now

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Speaker 1: towards Mr Flame? Between you and him? Uh? Okay, that's again.

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Speaker 1: That's that tone is when Sydney is just well, it's

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Speaker 1: only it's only roughly four hours later than Sydney thought

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Speaker 1: she'd be getting home tonight. So I understand the attitude.

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Speaker 1: Let's go home. I embrace it. That's it, this is

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Speaker 1: Dan Hanses. Certainly at some point we gotta go home.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's fake ice. For the ice come back

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Speaker 1: to us Ice Weather. Dan had signing off for the mailman.

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Speaker 1: The boss, the old boss now said until Tuesday