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Speaker 1: between us from the Chris Westling podcast studio. It's Around

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I'm Dan Hansas with Greg Rosenthal, that man

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Speaker 1: snoozy afternoon slate, and here it comes with a season

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Speaker 1: finale for the ages two hundred seventy two games now

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Speaker 1: in the books, and the playoffs are set Mark Sessler.

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Speaker 1: You know Greg, when I do look at Dan that

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Speaker 1: it's just a nice Gregg sandwich. And the way we're

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Speaker 1: Back to the game, you are the meat um to

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Speaker 1: in the books. Here's the playoff schedule let's start there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the west of this game the traditional early Saturday ball

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Speaker 1: game Baltimore six seed at Cincinnati three seed rematch of

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Speaker 1: week eighteen, and then yes new as of last season,

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Speaker 1: a Monday night playoff game eight fifteen Eastern. Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get to all the games, but that is

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Speaker 1: I mean, the least surprising development on our entire planet

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Speaker 1: a make good and it's a fun it's a fun

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Speaker 1: little slate. Marks. Sometimes you gotta with your corporate partners,

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Speaker 1: I think they're all sweating because they're like, how can

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Speaker 1: of good football to talk about, uh, including keeping our

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Speaker 1: New horizons Monday fast approaches. But let us start yes

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Speaker 1: There it is new horizons. That's called massaging. It's a softer,

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Speaker 1: How many big games have the Packers lost in their building?

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Speaker 1: It's a fortunate situation for a couple of these mezzanine

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Speaker 1: know what you're saying, but like, who, I'm sorry? Everything serious? No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: not at all, But just like I like that that's

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Speaker 1: coming from him, I would see, and maybe the war

431
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Speaker 1: in Rain really stands out when you bullet pointed like that.

432
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Speaker 1: It's kind of the most absurd thing I've heard. None

433
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Speaker 1: of the rest of it. I think like it mattered

434
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Speaker 1: except for that this season has been miserable and he

435
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Speaker 1: works works himself in a way that he was considering

436
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: retiring last year. I don't think that was the feature

437
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: that came out about him before the season, And like

438
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Speaker 1: the one picture of Payne was the fact that he

439
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,280
Speaker 1: can't just let any of the stuff go. So we'll see.

440
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: But they also talked about someone who wants to go

441
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Speaker 1: out and have the best coach, the most coaching wins. Ever,

442
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,000
Speaker 1: so it's like, which are you? I read? Uh? I

443
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: read uh. The our friend Jordan Rodrigan the Athletic about it,

444
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Speaker 1: and I just thought it was notable. She noted that

445
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Speaker 1: the Rams don't think he'd be retiring from football. They

446
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Speaker 1: think he'd be taking a break, kind of like Sean Payton,

447
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: and by taking a break, they could either be waiting

448
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: for him to come back, which is almost impossible, or

449
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,520
Speaker 1: they just know that they will be able to get

450
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,119
Speaker 1: some draft picks for him, and they could use some

451
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Speaker 1: draft picks whenever he does come. It could be mutually beneficial.

452
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Speaker 1: At this point in Rams history, they are it doesn't

453
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Speaker 1: feel like they're close to getting back to a super Bowl,

454
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Speaker 1: and I just wonder what that roster and everyone's saying,

455
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Speaker 1: all Matthew, Matthew, Stafford will be back. I don't know.

456
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Speaker 1: It's an interesting Jordan would be a great person to

457
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Speaker 1: have on the show for our next episode of Flashpoint

458
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: because McVeigh knew that something about Stafford that we don't know,

459
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Speaker 1: and then the Rams know something about McVeigh that we

460
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Speaker 1: don't know. It's like a you know, all right, let

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Speaker 1: us take a break and we will continue on. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's welcome back if you're just joining us, which would

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Speaker 1: be weird. It's a podcast Week eighteens in the books

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Speaker 1: to seventy two in the books. We got the playoffs set.

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Speaker 1: We continue now roll through the NFC. We finally we've

466
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Speaker 1: been waiting and waiting for the Eagles to lock down

467
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Speaker 1: the NFC, and everyone seed they finally did it. Hurts

468
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Speaker 1: gives it off to Scott up the middle Touchtoff does Okay,

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Speaker 1: that was the best highlight I could think to give

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Speaker 1: the great thing This was not um I was tasked

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Speaker 1: with watching both NFCUS games today. Not great is sometimes

472
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Speaker 1: you feel like you're earning your money a little bit.

473
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Speaker 1: You know. NFC East was not dynamic in Week eight

474
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Speaker 1: team which isn't to say teams involved in the NFC

475
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Speaker 1: East will not be dynamic in the next few weeks.

476
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Speaker 1: We've got three of them in the playoffs. It is

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Speaker 1: to say that maybe some of them will be. The

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles are the number one seed after a two

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Speaker 1: to sixteen win over the New York Giants, who remain

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Speaker 1: the number six seed. The Giants next week will travel,

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Speaker 1: as I said, to Minneapolis to face the Vikings, who

482
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Speaker 1: they played very tough on Christmas Eve. The Eagles the

483
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Speaker 1: the what do they say the fruit of their spoils?

484
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Speaker 1: Is that right? The spoils of their fruit to the

485
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Speaker 1: victor goes to spoils fruit something about fruit. They get fruit.

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Speaker 1: It's their labor, fruit of their labor. Wait, did anybody

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Speaker 1: hear anything? No, I didn't hear anything I think was

488
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,640
Speaker 1: fruit of their labor? Yes, justin um, yeah, just back

489
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Speaker 1: to your earlier point. That was Philly's only touchdown. What

490
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Speaker 1: other highlight works that Kenny Golladay's touchdown that was finally

491
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,320
Speaker 1: in his last game was a Giant most likely did

492
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: score touchdown, but anyway, um, they take care of business.

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Speaker 1: I said on the Thursday previous show, Boys that I

494
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Speaker 1: thought it was kind of an important game for the Eagles,

495
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Speaker 1: not just to win against the Giants backups, and trust me,

496
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: it was all Giants backups for the most part. Um

497
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Speaker 1: play well and they didn't really. I think they had

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Speaker 1: the touchdown and five field goals. The offense was a

499
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 1: little funky, but Jalen Hurts came out of it seemingly healthy. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, between the injury costing him two weeks and

501
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 1: then not doing much today. He's out of the m

502
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Speaker 1: v P conversation, but more importantly, he should be ready

503
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Speaker 1: to go in two weeks and the Eagles will be

504
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: as well. Fourteen and three, big season for them. And

505
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about a coach later in this show

506
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: that took pains to explain why he played starters deep

507
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 1: into a contest when there was no desire for that.

508
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,080
Speaker 1: The Giants hung around the Eagles with zero snaps for

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Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, se Kwan Barkley, Dexter Lawrence Cavon Thibodeaux, Leonard Williams,

510
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas, John Fluiciano. I mean they really legit rolled

511
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Speaker 1: out all your backups. They played a two tight end

512
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: set basically the whole game preseason so that they wouldn't

513
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: play their top three receivers, so that their top three

514
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: receivers didn't risk getting hurt, which a good move. It's

515
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,720
Speaker 1: amazing they were competitive, but it's also crazy because it's

516
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: like the Giants made the playoffs to the point where

517
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Speaker 1: they had to really make sure they protected Isaiah Hodgens

518
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Speaker 1: and Richie James, Like, like the Chargers are out there,

519
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: you know that they can't They say they can't start,

520
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,800
Speaker 1: but like the guys they're protecting are Isaiah Hodgens and

521
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: Richie James, who were lucky to make the team back in.

522
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Speaker 1: That's good coaching. That's good coaching. And the fact that

523
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Speaker 1: they were competitive in this game. I think they'll I

524
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 1: think they'll be loving that. I think they're feeling good.

525
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: I actually think the Giants kind of entered the playoffs, uh,

526
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Speaker 1: playing better than they played all season. There was one

527
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Speaker 1: absurd moment in this standard. Do you agree the idea?

528
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: Because this you know whether you want to keep it

529
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: close or not. Why show anything that you might use

530
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: down the road. But they attempted that fake field goal

531
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: where Jamie Gillen just the Scottish hammer just got destroyed.

532
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: And it's like, this game came down to six points.

533
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: You could have been you could have a chance to

534
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: be within It's not a big deal. But it wasn't

535
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Speaker 1: actually a close game. It was sixteen nothing at halftime

536
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: and the Giants got a very late score to sep

537
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 1: An on side kick. But the Eagles kind of controlled

538
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 1: it the whole time. And Iron Eagle gets credit because

539
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: as soon as that that special team's gaff occurred, he said, oh,

540
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Speaker 1: the Scottish hammer gets nailed, Like that's that's a pro. Um.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the Tennessee Titans later, uh, justin

542
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 1: so you might want to earmuffs this one. Um. A. J.

543
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: Brown set the Eagles record for receiving passing the great

544
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Speaker 1: uh Mike Quick around yards. He ended up with so

545
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: unbelievable season for him the Eagles. I'm a little noivous

546
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:01,000
Speaker 1: about the Eagles. I think there it's team that they're

547
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Speaker 1: gonna have to show that they can get back to

548
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Speaker 1: that top gear because it's been a wild nowt since

549
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 1: we've seen it. But they took care of business, got

550
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Speaker 1: that one seed that I mean, it would have been

551
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: an outright disaster if they lost out the last three

552
00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: weeks and didn't get that one seed. They got it.

553
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: Now they get to rest up and there you go.

554
00:30:18,360 --> 00:30:20,959
Speaker 1: This This is kind of the perfect outcome for me personally,

555
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: because I like the I roote, I'm rooting for them.

556
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,440
Speaker 1: I picked them to win the Super Bowl. But I

557
00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: do like the consternation in Philly and this result them

558
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: getting the one seed. But everyone's gonna be like so

559
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,280
Speaker 1: anxious for the next couple of weeks, and I don't know,

560
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: I never know what to make Yeah, I do like

561
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: the Philly angst. I enjoy Like I'd never know what

562
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,479
Speaker 1: to make of it. Like when a team kind of

563
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: comes to the finish line taken on water after a

564
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: really dominant season just because we've we've done this long enough.

565
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Speaker 1: Sometimes like then they lose the first game and everyone's like,

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Speaker 1: oh see, like and then sometimes they're nothing late in

567
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Speaker 1: the first quarter in the playoff game and it's like it.

568
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: But sometimes it doesn't, it doesn't matter at all, Like

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Speaker 1: the Eagles, for instance, kind of slowed down at the

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Speaker 1: end of that full season. I mean, I know it

571
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: was falls coming in there, but they didn't exactly. And

572
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: and I can think of Patriots seasons where they ended

573
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Speaker 1: really poorly in the regular season and then hot in

574
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Speaker 1: the plants and vice versa. Someone's gonna prove you right,

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Speaker 1: someone's gonna prove you wrong. Because Philly, Dallas, Minnesota, Tampa,

576
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: San France, outside of San Francisco and Seattle have all

577
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: been full of warts in the last couple of weeks

578
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: are fading and sort of just tripping their way into

579
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Like, please, we're inviting you into the postseason.

580
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 1: Come through the dorm. It's the new season. You don't

581
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: have to play San Francisco until the championship game at worst.

582
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: So that's the best get avoid the Niners as long

583
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: as you can. Yet, let's stay in the NFC East

584
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Speaker 1: and hit the other game. Because yes, the Cowboys seem

585
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 1: to be taken on some water too at the wrong time.

586
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: Third and six, stop the Prescott quick throw to the park.

587
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: He's gonna look in pick Sex, touchdown, touchdown once again,

588
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: and once again, Dad Prescott will give you you all

589
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: for too. Really on defense, to take that ball away

590
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: couple fall or visit the first time he had his

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Speaker 1: hands all over that. The second time, all right, that's

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Speaker 1: uh Brandinstein and Donaldson with the call com down. What's

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00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: going on with you? Greg? I don't don't my note,

594
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Speaker 1: said London Fletcher, And I was like, how we've been

595
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: through this before where it's definitely not London Fletchers. I

596
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 1: don't know, are you trying to like Ron? It's a

597
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: three person booth. So sometimes I had I got it.

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Speaker 1: I had it though before Greg screamed it. I was

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Speaker 1: gonna say, Julie Donaldson with the pick six and what

600
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Speaker 1: she's referring to is um dak and the rest of

601
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were so like shamelessly sloppy in this game

602
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: and unplugged in terms of playing sharp competitive football. That

603
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: literally the play before that he throws kind of a

604
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: lazy path us that Fuller has an easy path to

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Speaker 1: for a pick six. Only Fuller slipped and was unable

606
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: to catch the ball, and before the announcers could even

607
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: finish making the point of oh he really blew that.

608
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: Dad does the exact same thing, targeting the exact same

609
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: receiver and the exact same cornerback on the next play.

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Speaker 1: This time it's an easy pick six. And it was

611
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: kind of like at that point all she wrote, Washington

612
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: cruises to a twenty six to six win, and uh,

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00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 1: yeah again, Uh, we got Dallas going to Tampa, the

614
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: eight and nine NFC South champion on Monday night next week.

615
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: And there'll be a favorite in that game. Maybe not

616
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: a big favorite, maybe around three points, I would guess.

617
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Speaker 1: But I don't know how any Cowboy fan, or Mike

618
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Speaker 1: McCarthy for that matter, who's gonna be feeling the heat.

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Speaker 1: By the way, if they don't, if they go one

620
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 1: and done, uh can be feeling good about this team?

621
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: How they ended the season. They just something seems off

622
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:56,320
Speaker 1: mark with the Cowboys. And I'm looking at their recent

623
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: schedule here, Well that tells you the story. Look at

624
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks they play in the last month plus. Yeah,

625
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: you had the terrible loss to the Jaguars. You beat

626
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, Uh, you beat the Titans Josh Dobbs, Josh Dobbs,

627
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: and then you lose to Sam Howell in the Commanders, right,

628
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: they barely beat Davis Mills. I mean, they're just not

629
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: all these teams are gonna be able to search this

630
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: entire way, and I it's not all about the Dak

631
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Speaker 1: Prescott interceptions. I think like if you take away not

632
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: that you can, but if you take away the turnovers,

633
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: not this game stands out as a true mess. But

634
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: he's been pretty great. I think otherwise, it's just that

635
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: this they're not all these pick sixes are not the same.

636
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: The one the stuffy through today was just bad. Right,

637
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: he has been incredibly unlucky. Like, for what it's worth,

638
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,239
Speaker 1: his turnover worthy played percentage of PFF, it's been very

639
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,879
Speaker 1: average throughout this season, not good, not bad, but it's

640
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: it's really resulted in a huge amount of interceptions, some

641
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: of which were not his fault. But this time he's

642
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: not playing well. I'm more concerned about the defense. That

643
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,279
Speaker 1: was this team's calling card for a while, but now

644
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: they're thinnic cornerback defensive tackles clearly a problem. Like they

645
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: haven't been good at the second level in terms of

646
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: their linebackers. They're getting smoked by by Sam how who like,

647
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: hey kind of look Sam, how how about that? Yeah?

648
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 1: That was a nice pat. I mean, if you take

649
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: the goball out, his stats are not good, but you

650
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: can't take it out as part of it. Uh, yeah,

651
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: that was that was an encouraging I wouldn't if I'm

652
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: no Commanders, It wouldn't stopped me from being very aggressive

653
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: to find a quarterback. But maybe he could be your

654
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: backup next year. Yeah. I think Dak finished with fifteen

655
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 1: interceptions and and what twelve starts or whatever, and was

656
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,880
Speaker 1: so bad and it made me think I was wondering

657
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: as I'm watching the game because Dallas, um, you know,

658
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: couldn't make any real move once it became clear the

659
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: Philadelphia wasn't wasn't gonna lose that game to New York.

660
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: That get him out of the game. Get at these

661
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: starters of the game. But I think it was one

662
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: of those things where the coaches like, I need to

663
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: see I need to have them go out on something positive.

664
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: And they did scool Are a touchdown right before the half,

665
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: and in retrospect, maybe that should have been the time

666
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: where you pull the trigger. There was just not much

667
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: to build off, so you kind of flush this game,

668
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: um and hope that the better version of Dallas shows up.

669
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons also was kind of limping on and off

670
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: the field throughout this game. He seemed to be banged up.

671
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: Not a good day for the Dallas Cowboys. Maybe maybe

672
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: the whole scoreboard watching and being distracted and knowing that

673
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: the game you probably didn't matter. Maybe that's a factor.

674
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: He's heard about players talk about that. But they average

675
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: two point eight yards per play. They have ten first downs.

676
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: This is one of the worst offensive performances all season.

677
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,479
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Feel. Yeah, you're playing a You're gonna play

678
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: a team that's not very good next week in Tampa,

679
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,480
Speaker 1: but they're not terrible, and they're gonna be home and

680
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: they have Tom Brady. It's like this all feels like

681
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: it's building towards something with the Cowboys. I agree, we'll see.

682
00:36:52,719 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: I wonder if the favorite. You've told us though, that

683
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: the Bucks are winning the game. I have. I have

684
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 1: mentioned that I said whoever won the on the record

685
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,479
Speaker 1: multiple times, multiple times. I do want to mention that

686
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 1: Dan Snyder was reportedly not at this game, uh, which

687
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: is strange for the owner's habits. According to The Athletic,

688
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: it could be his final game as owner. With that

689
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: popping up. A spokesperson for Washington didn't want to comment

690
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: on it, but it was reported by the Athletic, which

691
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: is coming in a in a way. Maybe maybe this

692
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 1: win by Rivera and the ownership situation, maybe that helps

693
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: him stay the exact same thing. You know what I'm saying, like, Oh,

694
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: we can't clarify what where, where he was or what's

695
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: going on there. It's just like, are you the only

696
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: thing out there? I just want to know where telling

697
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 1: the pig was. I don't give it. I don't care

698
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 1: about anything else. I think he that pig probably knows

699
00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: he has probably a two game run if there's an

700
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: ownership change here and a lot of other changes. And

701
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: he's like, most Greg, you were cut off there. I'm

702
00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: sure you're about to make a t ancient point. No,

703
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: it was just what Rivera must be thinking, which is like,

704
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: is this this is happening again. I guess I'm gonna

705
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: keep my job because they're not gonna fire me right

706
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: before they leave. But this happened with Jerry Richardson in Carolina.

707
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: He had, he had that job, and then the new

708
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: owner came the game one year and I was run.

709
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,560
Speaker 1: I'd get my wife and maybe some kids and a

710
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: couple of grandkids, get out of dodge and just lay

711
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: low and hope they just kind of forget about me

712
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,399
Speaker 1: while they're trying to figure out if it's good move.

713
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: That's just the pro tip for Ron Rivera. Let's move

714
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: on other playoff NFC seating implications to the Bay Area.

715
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: We go bottom, I'm gonna play action and pretty gonna

716
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: throw and it is caught by George Kittle again. Kive

717
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: him a living on the year too, Dida. George Kittle,

718
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: the rubber Bandman is catching the rock for touchdowns this year,

719
00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,040
Speaker 1: and this one he rips away from Camboo Grouse a

720
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:04,919
Speaker 1: Hill the rubber Bandman on the old Hate Ashbury before

721
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 1: the game. Here. Yeah, it's going on with some of

722
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: these radio broadcasts. Hey, Danny, it sounds like he's blowing

723
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:17,479
Speaker 1: a bone. The rubber Bandman, a guy who we talked

724
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: about him on the podcast like midway through the season. Like,

725
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 1: you know, Kiddle is not really Kittle anymore, and maybe

726
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: he's not the same guy who was anymore. But if

727
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: hecame a touchdown machine in the second half, and that's

728
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: yet another reason to feel very good about San Francisco,

729
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: who go into the playoffs on a long winning streak,

730
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: lockdown the number two seed with a thirty eight to

731
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: thirteen win over a team that is technically the Cardinals,

732
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: um so San Francisco, Yes thirteen and four long winning

733
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 1: streak that they don't get to buy anymore with the

734
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: new rules in effect. But they will play at least

735
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: one home game and if if something goes crazy with

736
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: the number one seed Eagles, maybe the whole way through

737
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: the NFC we shall see. I think it's huge they

738
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: get Elijah Mitchell bat today, he's barely played off season,

739
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 1: and then you got Deepo Samuel back and you didn't

740
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: have to use Christian McCaffrey too much. It was the

741
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,439
Speaker 1: ideal way for a team that did have to win,

742
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: but they didn't want to expend all the energy in

743
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,439
Speaker 1: the world. They also didn't want to sweat it out

744
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,879
Speaker 1: like this was the opposite of what the Eagles did,

745
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: certainly what the Cowboys did or the Chargers. Uh. This

746
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,600
Speaker 1: was perfect. And they've they've given every confidence uh to

747
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: believe they're one of the best teams I know Danny's

748
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: power rankings believe so they will be the number one

749
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,279
Speaker 1: team going into the playoffs for whatever I mean. I

750
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 1: like the Bills, I love the Bengals, I love the Chiefs,

751
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: but I think San Francisco just feels like a runaway train.

752
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:47,280
Speaker 1: At least they have the clearest path to the super

753
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: Bowl of any team. Now because we are we all

754
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 1: agreeving on that absolutely to the super Bowl. Now, what's

755
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: the doubt? What's the doubt here? With the time you

756
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: think what team is a clearer path in San Francisco,

757
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: That's the Eagle. I guess the two of them are equal.

758
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: To me, if the forty Niners are in Philly, I

759
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: consider the Eagles like a slight favorite, not much, but slight. Yeah,

760
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: but at best, it's a it's a coin flip. I'm

761
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: not worried about the Niners playing an extra game when

762
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: it starts with Seattle. They matched up really well with

763
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: them both times. And this this game, you look at

764
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: the score and you think just another like absolute drubbing,

765
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: and ultimately it was down the stretch. But this game

766
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 1: was fourteen a thirteen with just a couple of seconds

767
00:41:27,239 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: to go in the first half, and there was a

768
00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: stretch where for the first time in a while, the

769
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,840
Speaker 1: Niners just went to sleep on offense three straight punts

770
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: and pretty couldn't generate anything, and yet they climbed their

771
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: way out of it. This was like not one of

772
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: their final performances, and by the end they absolutely destroyed Arizona.

773
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: It's like, I don't see another team doing this right

774
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: now in the NFC. So I tend to agree with Dan.

775
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: It like with where the Eagles all right now? The

776
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: Niners to me are just if you're gonna get Deebo back,

777
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna get Mitchell back. Purty has not proven to

778
00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: be anything but completely legitimate. He's out played Jimmy g

779
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: and can he fits right in and like he's he's

780
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: worked so well with guys like Kiddle and Brandon a

781
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 1: youth that I just don't I don't understand who really

782
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: would be favored over from this point. I know, maybe

783
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: Philly in Philly, but other than that, UM, I think

784
00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: they're the best team in the NFC. And the one

785
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: thing we should notice this was J. J. Watts Um

786
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: final game. I tend to believe that, like we're gonna

787
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: come September, there's gonna be J. J. Watt On retiring UM.

788
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: But I'm not trying to undo his decision or anything,

789
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: but just he is there a part of you that

790
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: thinks you could attempt to not in the least, but

791
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: just respecting his little stronger with your point. He might

792
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: listen to Sessler and be like, well, he's got a point. No,

793
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to make him come back. I just

794
00:42:41,560 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: I think that you're looking at someone that's playing about

795
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: as well as he has in ages. He had twelve

796
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: and a half sacks and lead the team in pressure

797
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: rate and everything. J J. Watt is not a shelf.

798
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 1: Three time Defensive Player of the Year. He had a

799
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty and a half sacks in the regular

800
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:00,280
Speaker 1: season and playoffs in his twelve year career. Here's here's

801
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: something from J. J. Watt after the game. I said,

802
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: I wanted to go out playing good ball, and I'm

803
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: playing good ball. I know I still can. I just

804
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: choose not to. That's all a great career is he?

805
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 1: If we were you know, the we just finished our

806
00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:20,759
Speaker 1: tenth regular season around the NFL here at NFL dot Com,

807
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:27,479
Speaker 1: NFL media, you get it. Um, is he the peak

808
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: J J. Watt the best defensive player? Yeah, I mean

809
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: i'd say yes, tick over. Some people say Donald, but

810
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: Watted his peak was just so we're talking about like

811
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: the impact on our show. I think like J. J.

812
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: Watt just was something that many people seen. Yeah, Supernova,

813
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: Bro good call Um. Yeah, and the party thing. It's

814
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: almost I feel like Greggy it's a little under the

815
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: radar now or doesn't get enough like the fact that

816
00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: this guy that was the last pick in the draft

817
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: is coming and is having a kind of a big

818
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: year of them. If you look at his his numbers,

819
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,560
Speaker 1: I know he's not at the level of those great

820
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: A f C quarterbacks or Jalen Hurts when he's healthy,

821
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: but he ended up with thirteen touchdowns against I think

822
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: three picks. His passer ratings about one ten or so,

823
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: I mean, and that a lot of credits to the

824
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: personnel and the coaching staff. But that is this season

825
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 1: we talked about when Garoppolo went out, it was like,

826
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 1: is it kind of over for San Francisco, And it

827
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: kind of seemed like it was. It is not over,

828
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: and parties rise has been a big part of Now

829
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: they got better. I mean, today was a perfect example

830
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: of a pretty game. Five in completions, three touchdowns, in

831
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: almost nine yards per attempt. It's crazy. My my pushback

832
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,399
Speaker 1: with like calling the Eagles certainly I think a coin flip,

833
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: if not better if their home is just looking at

834
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,839
Speaker 1: the two rosters, they're both loaded. Looking at the two quarterbacks,

835
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: I'll take Philly and I do. Look at the teams

836
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: that San Francisco has played, it's not their fault. Uh.

837
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,360
Speaker 1: They played one really good I guess defense that was

838
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: playing well at the time down the stretch. That was

839
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: when they beat the Saints thirteen nothing. That was a

840
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: weird game. They were coming off the Mexico game and

841
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,760
Speaker 1: that was supposedly a thing. But they were just playing

842
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that didn't really get in their

843
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: way too much. And maybe Minnesota won't either. If that's

844
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:18,799
Speaker 1: the first UH matchup after Seattle, like that sets up

845
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 1: as well as possible for them to roll into that

846
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: NFC championship without playing an overly good defense. This haven't

847
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: lost since October, and I don't see a weakness ten

848
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: game winning streak as the Niners hit the postseason. Uh.

849
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: With Seattle Seahawks coming into their building, did outduel David

850
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: blow By the way? Bloud did all he could looking

851
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: for that newsletter. That's tough for you to have to

852
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: write the newsletter. Leave here. It's a long day. I

853
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: don't even you know. You sleep for maybe three or

854
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: four hours during this time of year, and you just

855
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: keep going. Sure, that's the sacrifices we make. All right, boys,

856
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: let's take a break and then we'll hit the rest

857
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:58,440
Speaker 1: of the NFC and then move on to the a

858
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: f C. All right, let's finish out these NFC games

859
00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: or a trip the Soldier field or the Vikings and

860
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: Bears did battle with nothing on the line. Well something

861
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: Cousins under centered play action, straight drop pass to the

862
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: end zone, caught, touchdown Adam Feeling. Kirk Cousins throws a

863
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: touchdown to Adam Feeling and per Kirk, it's his twenty

864
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,920
Speaker 1: nine touchdown this seasons. For Adam Feeling, it's his sixth

865
00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:32,759
Speaker 1: receiving touchdown. And that's where those men would end in

866
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: terms of their statistical outputting the regular season. Because Kevin

867
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:41,720
Speaker 1: O'Connell pulled many of his starters at the half. UH

868
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: game in hand, a game that didn't mean anything to

869
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: the Vikings who were locked in in their playoff spot.

870
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: They went over the Bears. Let's not say that there

871
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: was things on the line of the Minnesota Vikings if

872
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: things broke a certain way. They didn't. So they are

873
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: where they are and they'll get the Giants next week

874
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:03,799
Speaker 1: now Adam Feland had the touchdown. Otherwise kind of a

875
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: ho home game, and the Chicago Bears with the loss.

876
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: In addition to the win of the Texans have the

877
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the NFL draft UH ten

878
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 1: game Losing streaks have never felt so good in Yeah,

879
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: because you, I mean you, you're so right. It's a

880
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: season where wins and losses. You kind of can put

881
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: it aside as a Bears fan because you got the

882
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,080
Speaker 1: number one pick, you already have a quarterback you don't

883
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 1: want to waste too many more years on his rookie contract.

884
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: But you also go into the off season with a

885
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,319
Speaker 1: monstrously large amount of calf space over any other team.

886
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: The Falcons are second. And it doesn't mean you go

887
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: spend it all, but it's like you have a lot

888
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 1: of flexibility. I think you can sell a lot of

889
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,120
Speaker 1: free agents on Justin Fields and what you're building, which

890
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: is a far away We were not here in the summer.

891
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: We were killing this entire organization for essentially about to

892
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: be putting Justin Fields out there with nothing around him,

893
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: and instead, look at it turned out pretty well, and

894
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: you have a guy that is someone different than we

895
00:47:57,080 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: thought of a number of months ago. I still don't

896
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,360
Speaker 1: know if they have a coach. Like the defense was bad.

897
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 1: They did trade the number thirty two picking the draft

898
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: for Chase clay Pool, which was looks like a fiasco.

899
00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: That was a weird one that that not looking great.

900
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 1: They started Nathan Nathan Peterman in a football game and

901
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,400
Speaker 1: the year three, so I just I can't give him

902
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 1: too many flowers. But they did get some breaks. And

903
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: George McCaskey, uh, the executive uh, the owner rather uh

904
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: was seen toting around a YETI cooler today after the

905
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: game full of ice cream bars and giving them out

906
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: to people. So that's kind of a shout out to

907
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: the old times in the like old Papa Bear. That's

908
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 1: what he did at the end of the season. Nice season.

909
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: You know, here's an ice cream bar. I was hoping

910
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 1: you were telling the truth, like, not joking, because otherwise

911
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: that's kind of an eccentric move that that that is

912
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: the truth. All right, Well there you go. Well there

913
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,439
Speaker 1: was reason to celebrate for the Bears, and um, yeah,

914
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:54,839
Speaker 1: you you figure that that will be a draft pick

915
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 1: for sale unless they absolutely fall in love with someone

916
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:00,439
Speaker 1: who was not a quarterback. But this is a type

917
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 1: of they handled this right, and they have their management

918
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: set up right and their draft scouts set up right,

919
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: they could turn this haul into something that changes their

920
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: organization and makes them a contender in the NFC next year.

921
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: That's they're in a unique situation. One little thing with

922
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: the Vikings because you came out of last week's disaster

923
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: and no one believes in them. I get it. But

924
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:23,840
Speaker 1: Cousins going seventeen for I saw him throwing some heaters

925
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: to like kJ Osborne and stuff. It seems like it

926
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: looked pretty good. This is is how you do it, Staley.

927
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: You rack up fo two yards of offense, twenty eight

928
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: first downs, and you sit everyone by half time. That

929
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna try to revive your exciting about the

930
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: vis It was just like this is like like several

931
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: of the Week eighteen games, these teams that were just

932
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: like they were watching the Eagles score and the forty score,

933
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: I believe, and then once they saw that or that

934
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: the forty nine score rather and then once they saw

935
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: and and we're gonna get obviously to the playoff implications

936
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: or the games in the upcoming week, but put it

937
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:01,600
Speaker 1: this way, Vikings fans especially Vikings fans a annoyed um

938
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: at me on Twitter. Um, you did go thirteen and four,

939
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 1: you got at least one home game, and you could

940
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 1: you could say, in a serious manner inside that locker room,

941
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 1: no one believes in us. So maybe you could take

942
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: that and do something with you. We'll see, all right,

943
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's move to Atlanta, where the Bucks and

944
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: Falcons did battle in a low stakes affair. Zetias and

945
00:50:25,560 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: motion from right to left. Here's Ritter looking shoots it

946
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: in soon. I mean what there is for the Atlanta touchdown?

947
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,399
Speaker 1: That's it. I think that that's the first Desmond Ritter

948
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: touchdown pass. Oh, it's hope season in Atlanta. Uh for

949
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 1: the Falcons, who end their season in a positive manner

950
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: with a thirty to seventeen win over the Bucks. The

951
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: Bucks clinched the NFC South last week by virtue. It

952
00:50:56,080 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 1: was like man by virtue of their victory over the Panthers. Uh.

953
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:02,359
Speaker 1: So they'll host a playoff game against the Cowboys next week.

954
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 1: Mark um. But they also finished eight nine on the season,

955
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: by the way, the first ever losing season in Tom

956
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: Brady's career. Yeah, and you know it's so he started

957
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: this game, and they yanked him before halftime and Blaine

958
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: Gabbert came in and was eventually replaced by Kyle Trast.

959
00:51:22,120 --> 00:51:24,720
Speaker 1: There was no Mike Evans in this game. Tristan Worths

960
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,879
Speaker 1: was was essentially not on the field. Tom Brady, though,

961
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: looked like for a bit furious when they yanked him.

962
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,480
Speaker 1: I thinking, just because of what you just mentioned, it's

963
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: like Tom Brady is not built to sit on the

964
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: sideline and watch the formation in the birth of his

965
00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: first losing season whatever. He had plenty of time to

966
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: have a winning season, no doubt, but I mean, just

967
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,800
Speaker 1: in this situation, he was annoyed. But that what happened

968
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,759
Speaker 1: was then the game started to tilt in Atlanta's favor,

969
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: and I think that, you know, I don't want to

970
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: overhype the Falcons. They've got a lot to figure out,

971
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: but again they're the second most capitom in the league.

972
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:56,440
Speaker 1: I don't know if you have a quarterback in Desmond Ritter,

973
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: but I thought he played his best game by far today,

974
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: And you do have a wide receiver in Drake London.

975
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: You do have a really interesting running back and Tyler

976
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: Alger who crossed a thousand yards. I mean it's like

977
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,880
Speaker 1: your guy, You're they have some crazy offensive Kie of

978
00:52:10,920 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: the Year Canada and himself Tyler out here and there's

979
00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: a thin pool there. But like he's also been want to,

980
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 1: you know, get him back on the horn, and I I

981
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: hope he's feeling better. But Tyler Algae yere algae here

982
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: is officially your guy. Well but three times like a

983
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 1: seasonal thing for him. He's you need the sun to

984
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: come back out. But no, I think there's like there's

985
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: a there's some things to build around in Atlanta. Ridder.

986
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't know. At least they

987
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,759
Speaker 1: didn't wait and not have him play, Like the whole

988
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 1: thing that happened with Mariota is weird, but like they

989
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: needed to see Ridder. I don't think it prevents you

990
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:50,880
Speaker 1: from making other moves of that position. Necessarily. We're tied

991
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 1: when Brady left this game. That's probably partly why Brady

992
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: was out there, like points on five possessions. It's I mean,

993
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 1: it's not like they were dominating that Gabbert came in

994
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: and they got like a turnover to take the lead

995
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: for a minute and then they didn't speak. Guys are

996
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: still hanging around Blaine Gabert. What's up, Bud? Yeah, looking handsome.

997
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: I mean that was never the problem with Blaine Gabert. No,

998
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 1: but he had like that, like he's got is kind

999
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,359
Speaker 1: of a beautiful man. He's also perfect haircut for him

1000
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 1: at this stage in his life right now. He's also

1001
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,439
Speaker 1: a hero. We've talked about that on the show, didn't

1002
00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:23,799
Speaker 1: we Him and his three brothers saved us some people

1003
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 1: from drowning. I saw that. It's nice. And you know

1004
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 1: who else did the same thing. Her old friend Peyton

1005
00:53:30,440 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: hillis former Brown's Russia who unfortunately you know, he put

1006
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: him in the hospital, but he he saved some children

1007
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,919
Speaker 1: in the sea, his own, his own children. And we hope,

1008
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: I hope the best for Peyton hillis um and his

1009
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: recovery on that end. Um, all right, let's move to

1010
00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 1: uh Nolans. See Greg went. They had a bunch of

1011
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: people from the University of Georgia right before we alumni

1012
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: before we started the show today, Um, and it was

1013
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: a party. We got Georgia playing TCU for the national

1014
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: championship on Monday in the across the sidewalk. This is

1015
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: part of the probably the package that they paid for

1016
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: to come, you know, and part of the job is

1017
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: and this is not not a critique of the company.

1018
00:54:14,360 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: It's very nice to do these tours. But where we

1019
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 1: each sit, which is along against a very long glass

1020
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: wall with the big hallway where anyone being kind of

1021
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: taken through dog and pony through the building is standing

1022
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: there always they just gather and stare at us and

1023
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,879
Speaker 1: my I faced them directly where it's like I'm sitting

1024
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: there eating like a piece of it's happen. I have

1025
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: the worst seat in the entire Look at all the

1026
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: easy Yankees and like working on a Sunday that's not

1027
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 1: against the guys, sir, they're looking at what I'm looking

1028
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: at online. I don't need that, Like I mean, it's fine,

1029
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 1: it's just work stuff. But it's like I'm not a

1030
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 1: I'm not you know, here for your observation, but yes

1031
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: i am. Mark bring this up. I would say to

1032
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 1: three times a week, and I never get tired hearing

1033
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: because they diver time taking it like it exasperates him

1034
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,400
Speaker 1: anew every time, or it's like a middle school football

1035
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:06,200
Speaker 1: team coming through. I'm glad that they're here, but it's

1036
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: like they're staring at me like I didn't It's eight

1037
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: in the morning. I don't want to be looked at,

1038
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: you know, to nation. I got the vapors looking at

1039
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 1: this big facility. Go ja, Well they came right at

1040
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: the past the studio here. You know. Greg's shaking his head.

1041
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:21,360
Speaker 1: He's like, I, actually, you know what to school in

1042
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 1: the South. Southern culture is. But I've watched a lot

1043
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: of TV, Greg, I know what true Southern culture is.

1044
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: I got the vapors. All right, let's go. That's how

1045
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,960
Speaker 1: they all spent. Well we got anything else? The Saints?

1046
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did we play the highlight? Swings, the legs,

1047
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:48,399
Speaker 1: the kickings up? It is good. What's it for Carolina

1048
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 1: to end this season in New Orleans? There you go, Greg,

1049
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: Eddie Paniero at the kick at the gun? Sam Donald

1050
00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: leads the Panthers, right Greg, to ten to seven win

1051
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: over the Saints at the Superdome Bowl. Teams finished seven

1052
00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 1: and ten. That's perfect. It's not how you start, Danny,

1053
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: it's how you finished. That's the story of Sam Donald's career. Yes,

1054
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,200
Speaker 1: he only finished five or fifteen for forty three yards

1055
00:56:15,200 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: and two interceptions, a quarterback rating of two point eight.

1056
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: But it was Sam Donald who ran for a first

1057
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: down and then connected with Terrace Marshall for twenty one

1058
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: yards on that final drive, and you know what that did.

1059
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: That saved me from watching overtime of this dreadful game.

1060
00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: A huge favor to all of America and beyond. So, yeah,

1061
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,720
Speaker 1: the big storylines here that winning streak for the Saints

1062
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: ends at three games. We'll see you with Dennis Allen's

1063
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,359
Speaker 1: future is Steve Wilkes the same as well? A lot

1064
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: of coach questions after the season ends for both teams.

1065
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:54,000
Speaker 1: Jim Trotter, our NFL Network reporter, was very curious why

1066
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: David Tepper, the owner of the Panthers, wasn't at this

1067
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: game kind of talking about what Steve Wilkes as chances

1068
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: are to keep that job or not. There's been, you know,

1069
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:08,959
Speaker 1: confirmation that Temper and Jim Harbaugh spoke about the job,

1070
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,879
Speaker 1: about the head coaching job. Wilkes did finish six and six,

1071
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 1: and this was kind of a kind of a game.

1072
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,120
Speaker 1: Why I like Steve Wilkes as a head coach more

1073
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,480
Speaker 1: than Dennis Allen. There was no business for the scenes

1074
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: to win this game. They could not have lose this game, rather,

1075
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: could not have dominated anymore for the first two or

1076
00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: and a half quarters, but just saying, just kept making

1077
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: dumb mistakes, and the Panthers came out a halftime at

1078
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: least trying their best in to the point you were

1079
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: saying about Harbaugh and kind of awkward. Uh news reporting

1080
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 1: from Jonathan Jones of CBFL on CBS. UH. He tweeted

1081
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: this morning, the Panthers spoke with Jim Harbaugh recently, but

1082
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: only after a good deal of persistence on Harbaugh's side.

1083
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: Carolina plans to focus its efforts elsewhere. So whatever whatever

1084
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 1: Jim is telling Michigan and their alumni about, Oh yeah,

1085
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not looking to leave. According to the

1086
00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 1: CBS reporting here, he was very thirsty for the Panthers

1087
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: to take him seriously as a candidate, and yet they had.

1088
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,439
Speaker 1: You did this a year ago and got a raise,

1089
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:12,240
Speaker 1: So I think it's um, you know, with those college

1090
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,440
Speaker 1: coaching contracts, maybe just turn that into more money. M

1091
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:19,840
Speaker 1: well done. Who are the Did Georgia defeat Michigan in

1092
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 1: the semifinal? They did? They ended. I literally watched four

1093
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: minutes of college football season, so Idigan. I kind of

1094
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: like Carbo, but I liked seeing him in pain to

1095
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: the fun game. Oh those Yankees watching football on Sunday,

1096
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: I like it on Screw Drew was a big Michigan

1097
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,919
Speaker 1: fan back here. He was pretty devastated at the TC

1098
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: beat them nine foot seven, Drew Drew any comments, Yeah

1099
00:58:50,920 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: good look with all right, there you go. So that's

1100
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:55,920
Speaker 1: the NFC. Now let's move to the a f C

1101
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: and that playoff picture. Um starting where we have to,

1102
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: of course, in Western New York after the you know,

1103
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:07,480
Speaker 1: really horrifying incident that happens Monday night in Cincinnati that

1104
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: leads all sorts of different changes and throws everything up

1105
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 1: in the air in terms of the playoffs and how

1106
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: the seatings will be handled. Well, the Bills still how

1107
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: to take care of business, go back on the field

1108
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,439
Speaker 1: and try to get back to being a super Bowl team.

1109
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: And the good news, of course, by the way, Damarrow

1110
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:28,720
Speaker 1: hamlin Um continues to make progress in contact with his team,

1111
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: now speaking tweeting it's it couldn't be better all, all

1112
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: of his mental functions are totally their tremendous news compared

1113
00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: to what it was like even seventy two hours ago.

1114
00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 1: So great news. And now the Buffalo Bills, filled with

1115
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 1: hope and spirit, look to finish off their regular season

1116
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: schedule and get the Patriots out of the playoffs. Tortured,

1117
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,680
Speaker 1: Park puts his foot into the call. It's gonna be

1118
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,640
Speaker 1: short fielding at the four by highs, coming straight up

1119
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,320
Speaker 1: the middle to the twenty, cuts it back in. He's

1120
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: got an alley down the right side, loot of the

1121
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: forty fifty down to the forty thirty five thirty fifty

1122
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: trade five touch nine. He hides ninety six yards. Run,

1123
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 1: run as fast as you can. You're not catching Hines.

1124
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 1: He's your rents owe Man buffalo on the board with

1125
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: the first play from scrimmage. You can't make it up.

1126
01:00:27,200 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: You cannot make it up. But well, you know what

1127
01:00:30,080 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 1: sequel that's not even it hit it Nick Folk kicking

1128
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: it off now, Hines takes it a yard deep in

1129
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 1: the end Zone'm gonna bring it out out to the

1130
01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:41,919
Speaker 1: ten to the fifteen, up over the twenty thirty, gets

1131
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: away with the tackle of thirty forty forty five fifty.

1132
01:00:45,160 --> 01:00:48,959
Speaker 1: Then not gonna get him. He's going for another one

1133
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: one hundred and two yards. And there was a third one. No,

1134
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: just kidding, it was just just quote unquote to kickoff

1135
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: returns for touchdown from the hem Heinz including obviously the

1136
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: first play since everything that went down Monday night in Cincinnati.

1137
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:14,439
Speaker 1: The mar Hamlin himself tweeted out in the moment after

1138
01:01:14,480 --> 01:01:17,960
Speaker 1: the opening kickoff, O m f G. If you don't

1139
01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: know what that means, look it up. It was those

1140
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: two kickoff returns by Hims that were really the difference

1141
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 1: for the Bills, who did not have their a game defensively,

1142
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: but the special teams excellence compared with combined with some

1143
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen magic, was enough for a thirty three win

1144
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,760
Speaker 1: over UH. The Patriots. Patriots go home eliminated with the loss,

1145
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: and the Bills Mark Sessler UH finished thirteen and three,

1146
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 1: which isn't good enough UH to win the a f

1147
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:50,240
Speaker 1: C number one seed, but what a hell of a

1148
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: way to kind of get back on the field after

1149
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:55,840
Speaker 1: everything that transpired in the last week. And no team

1150
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: in the league has been room war and UH, you

1151
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: know it happened obviously instantaneously at the start of all

1152
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:03,720
Speaker 1: these games. And I was sitting with Greg and I

1153
01:02:03,760 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: just thought to myself and said out loud, like, what

1154
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 1: on how on earth can a games start this way?

1155
01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: And I just think the one thing that is, I mean,

1156
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: this whole journey that we've been on over the past

1157
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: week that the Bills have been on, that every one

1158
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 1: of those players and players around the league to I

1159
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 1: just got the sense that someone was kind of chosen,

1160
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:22,800
Speaker 1: um amongst all of this to send a message right

1161
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 1: away that things were gonna be all right for this

1162
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:26,920
Speaker 1: Bills team. And I mean Nike Hims, who they traded for,

1163
01:02:27,040 --> 01:02:29,440
Speaker 1: has been a bit player his whole career, always here

1164
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: about like, well, we want to get Hines more involved

1165
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: in the Colts offense back in the day, and the

1166
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,600
Speaker 1: Bills got him for a certain reason, and now it's

1167
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: like the reason and the role he's played is utterly

1168
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: irreplaceable in Bill's history forever. I mean, it's just very

1169
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: special thing where sometimes the way sports work, it's like

1170
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: the least obvious character is just pulled out of the

1171
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: fray and chosen to do something that isn't leaves an

1172
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: indelible mark, And that's what happened here. From Josh Allen,

1173
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: who like you mark, you put it very well there.

1174
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: It almost felt like there was more at play the

1175
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: way this game started, and really the entire tone in

1176
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: Western New York today, I can't remember a play that

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01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: touched me like that, and I don't think in my life,

1178
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: so it's it's probably number one. It was. It was

1179
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: just spiritual and I just I was going around and

1180
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 1: I just something. I was going around. My twom is saying,

1181
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 1: God's real, like, you can't you can't draw that one

1182
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:31,040
Speaker 1: up right? That one up any better? Um? And I

1183
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 1: was just told by Kevin Curran it's been three years

1184
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 1: and three months since the last kickoff return. So pretty cool.

1185
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 1: Greg Tomorrow Hamlin of course number three, uh. Whereas for

1186
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: the Bills, and three was everywhere across the NFL, including

1187
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:51,919
Speaker 1: on the hats of all the Bills players. I thought

1188
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: of Steve Gleason's punt return black for the Saints immediately,

1189
01:03:55,760 --> 01:04:00,320
Speaker 1: and totally different situations, of course, in in many different ways,

1190
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:04,920
Speaker 1: but a play that when I saw it, you knew

1191
01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: how special it was. Now we're almost twenty years we're

1192
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: twenty years later, and we still talk about that play.

1193
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: And when this kickoff return happened, I just thought, we're

1194
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: gonna be talking about this play in twenty years too.

1195
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: And I new York and them, and the thing is,

1196
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: I think it's really important for the Bills football team

1197
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 1: in their quest to go win a super Bowl, which

1198
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:33,760
Speaker 1: is part of this whole um conversation that we're going

1199
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: to have about them moving forward to have that moment

1200
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,880
Speaker 1: here today too, then play the rest of this game out,

1201
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: a game in which they were in trouble in trailing

1202
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 1: at one point in the second half, and kind of

1203
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:50,480
Speaker 1: get through today and get that win and set up

1204
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 1: that we don't have to have a Bill's Chiefs a

1205
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 1: f C championship um or if we have a Bill's

1206
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs a f C championship, that's gonna be at a

1207
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: neutral site. And I think not that they're gonna put

1208
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: anything past what happened with Damar Hamlin, Like they were

1209
01:05:05,080 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: face timing with him, and he's now going to be

1210
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: a presence, I think, in their lives and talking. But

1211
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:11,439
Speaker 1: he's getting better and better every week. And I think

1212
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 1: to be able to handle the emotions as a football

1213
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 1: team of like, okay, this all happened, and and then

1214
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:19,800
Speaker 1: you gotta go play a game and it didn't really

1215
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:21,720
Speaker 1: go that well for a lot of the game, but

1216
01:05:21,760 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: then to come out on top in the end and

1217
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 1: then start now to look forward to what their playoff

1218
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 1: matchup is going to be. I also think that's big

1219
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 1: you know, just for for everyone to start to move

1220
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 1: forward of what they they're going to do and and

1221
01:05:34,440 --> 01:05:36,280
Speaker 1: and attack the rest of the season. It was an

1222
01:05:36,280 --> 01:05:39,400
Speaker 1: example of it was another game where Josh Allen, um,

1223
01:05:39,520 --> 01:05:41,240
Speaker 1: you know, up until he started to make some big

1224
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 1: throws down the stretch. They just their offense has looked

1225
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 1: somewhat suspect um in recent weeks. Uh, Stefon Diggs had

1226
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: a big catch that maybe uncoortdom I thought, where is

1227
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs? I think that was one of those Josh

1228
01:05:54,200 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: Allen throws that maybe, But I also feel like the

1229
01:05:57,000 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 1: particulars of this game, just what you were just saying,

1230
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: it's a this is a bit of a week of

1231
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: fugazzy week a team for a lot of different teams

1232
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: for a lot of different reasons. The Bills just needed

1233
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: to survive and have this happened in front of their

1234
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 1: fans at home, and for that reason, I think it's

1235
01:06:11,960 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 1: a very special kind of checkpoint for them, um and

1236
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: had to happen way it did today. Yeah, and Tony

1237
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 1: Romo calling the game with nance, and they also had

1238
01:06:20,360 --> 01:06:23,200
Speaker 1: great calls of those two plays. Uh we heard from

1239
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: Bill's radio there. But obviously that was some special stuff.

1240
01:06:26,840 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: Um he said, Romo said, And Romo's you know, he

1241
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:34,440
Speaker 1: knows quarterbacks like nobody else. I keep thinking aback about too. Uh,

1242
01:06:34,520 --> 01:06:36,720
Speaker 1: he knew before anyone else. He's like, oh, Mike White

1243
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,720
Speaker 1: doesn't He's not just injured. He has multiple broken ribs,

1244
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 1: and then we find out weeks later he's got five

1245
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:44,439
Speaker 1: broken whips. He's watching Josh Josh Allen the last few

1246
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: weeks and saying he's he's not the same. He's not

1247
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 1: the same. He's not thrown it the same way. And

1248
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,080
Speaker 1: he said today, like in the last ten days is

1249
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 1: the number he put on it. He sees Alan throwing

1250
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 1: the ball now the way he did before the elbow

1251
01:06:56,560 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: injury back in October. And that throw today, EIGs was

1252
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: the type of throws like, oh okay, all right. That's

1253
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 1: so that's important for the Bills obviously that you get

1254
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:08,200
Speaker 1: peek out. He did have another red zone uh turnover,

1255
01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: which has been an issue all season. But man, you

1256
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,000
Speaker 1: just you just you try not to put too much

1257
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 1: into it and the mystical stuff and all everything like that.

1258
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: Although I respect, you know, Josh Allen bringing the spirit

1259
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,480
Speaker 1: spirituality into it. Um Man, the bill is gonna get

1260
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:26,560
Speaker 1: stopped this year. You just feel like there's something really

1261
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,840
Speaker 1: magical brewing with this season, in this organization that's waited

1262
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 1: so long to get to the mountaintop. And on on

1263
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: the New England side of things, because we should cover

1264
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:39,600
Speaker 1: the Pats because their season is over. Um, really, I

1265
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: gotta give him credit, to be honest with you, it

1266
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:44,800
Speaker 1: was sloppy and that's what and that's gonna be something

1267
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 1: we remember about this season. Uncharacteristic, uh misques they had

1268
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:53,400
Speaker 1: obviously the two massive special teams Gaffs mac Jones threw

1269
01:07:53,440 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: a bunch of picks late in the game and one

1270
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: when the game was very much in the balance in

1271
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 1: the red zone himself. Uh. But after giving up that

1272
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: kickoff return to start the game, their ability to calm

1273
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: things down in that building, gets to halftime at fourteen fourteen,

1274
01:08:07,320 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 1: take the lead before their special teams blew it for

1275
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:14,200
Speaker 1: him again. Greg. A very uncharacteristic New England season. Uh.

1276
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:16,720
Speaker 1: Frustrating way for it to end, but kind of on

1277
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: brand in a lot of ways the way it all

1278
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 1: played out. Right, They to me are a different team

1279
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 1: obviously since Brady has been gone and and they've been

1280
01:08:24,040 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 1: very This was a very characteristic season to me of

1281
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:29,679
Speaker 1: the last three they've been a consistent at this level.

1282
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:31,639
Speaker 1: Though the slopping this like it this left this felt

1283
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:36,479
Speaker 1: like a little beyonds like quarterback melting down the sideline edge.

1284
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 1: They were slopping in a different way. Absolutely offensively, I

1285
01:08:39,400 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: think they were one of the most poorly coached, you know,

1286
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,600
Speaker 1: sides of the football I've ever seen out of the Patriots,

1287
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: but just in terms of being like kind of the

1288
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,160
Speaker 1: middle of the road team that that does find ways

1289
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: to lose games, that often does have mental mistakes, this

1290
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:53,400
Speaker 1: time it was special team. So you just kind of

1291
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 1: don't know which side is going to pop up here.

1292
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 1: Their defense was playing much better at the end of

1293
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: this season, uh than they had the last couple of years,

1294
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 1: certainly compared to last year. I think the defense would

1295
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:05,680
Speaker 1: have been ready to go on a long playoff run

1296
01:09:05,760 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 1: if they had a good offense overall, and they showed

1297
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: something there today. But it was a bit of a

1298
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: end of an era here, I think too. That was

1299
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 1: I think the last we're gonna see a Devin mccordy.

1300
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:20,320
Speaker 1: It really looks like he and and Matthew Slater as well,

1301
01:09:20,400 --> 01:09:24,479
Speaker 1: so uh as a as a Patriots fan Slater. Uh,

1302
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 1: it's hard to see him go out on this special

1303
01:09:26,520 --> 01:09:28,640
Speaker 1: teams guy. Maybe I'll like, if there ever was a

1304
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 1: Special Team's Hall of Famer, he would be. I don't

1305
01:09:30,520 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: think we'll get in with that. But he says he

1306
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 1: was shell shocked after the games. It sounds like that'll

1307
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:37,720
Speaker 1: be it for him. It has got to agitate Bill

1308
01:09:37,760 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 1: Belichick to no end. That they came into this game

1309
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: with the twenty nine ranked waited d v O A

1310
01:09:44,360 --> 01:09:47,560
Speaker 1: special teams units, So I'm sure it dipped. Uh is

1311
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: it couldn't go much lower, but it obviously did. And

1312
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 1: that I mean Bill Belichick is the coach we think

1313
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:55,040
Speaker 1: of who on these Friday press conferences will go on

1314
01:09:55,080 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 1: a fourteen minute long soliloquy about special teams play when

1315
01:09:58,520 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: everyone else mostly ignores it. So this was an there here.

1316
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: There are elements of this that feel UNBELI check in.

1317
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:05,240
Speaker 1: I think there's obviously gonna be a change on the

1318
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:07,760
Speaker 1: offensive coaching staff. Um, if you want to keep Mac

1319
01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 1: Jones around, which at this point, you know I said

1320
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,760
Speaker 1: last week that I'm not sure I would assume that

1321
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: would happen, But what other options do you have? It's

1322
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:16,560
Speaker 1: like get a better off o c in there, and

1323
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: I think you can get Mac Jones back. I think

1324
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:20,799
Speaker 1: it would be a mistake to make a rash decision

1325
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 1: at the quarterback. We're gonna get into that, but I thought,

1326
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 1: at one point in this game, just give you an

1327
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:27,599
Speaker 1: example Mac Jones. And the evaluation is tough because things

1328
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 1: were so messy in New England. One point in this

1329
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:31,760
Speaker 1: game he was in their three touchdown drives, their first

1330
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 1: three touchdown draws. He was seventeen for seventeen for a

1331
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,559
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy yards and three touchdowns. Like, there's there's

1332
01:10:37,600 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: a potentially a decent, too good quarterback there. And I

1333
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:42,759
Speaker 1: don't know if you kick him out the door after

1334
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 1: this season. Uh, And we'll see, Greg. I know you've been,

1335
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:48,919
Speaker 1: you know, talking a little bit about what happens with Belichick,

1336
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 1: if he's getting pressure from upstairs about how the changes

1337
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: need to be made. We know changes need to be

1338
01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: made in New England. I think it'll be a radio

1339
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,639
Speaker 1: a silence for a while, but I still wouldn't I'm

1340
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 1: very curious to see what the outcome is of what

1341
01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,720
Speaker 1: Bill Bill. I mean that all time wins record is

1342
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:08,720
Speaker 1: in you know, target team. If he wants. Guess I

1343
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: feel it be strange to throw him somewhere else. But

1344
01:11:11,640 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: and as we said at the top of the show,

1345
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:17,000
Speaker 1: it will be the Miami Dolphins traveling to Buffalo in

1346
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 1: the wild Card playoffs next week. Let's move to another

1347
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: team that's dancing, the Miami Dolphins. Hey, sometimes the dance

1348
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 1: isn't pretty. Sometimes sometimes it's an ugly dance. But it's

1349
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:32,759
Speaker 1: all right. You're dancing nonetheless, dance like no one's watching.

1350
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 1: Is that the thing? I mean? It's always an ugly

1351
01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:36,640
Speaker 1: dance that I'm involved personally, right, I can think of

1352
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 1: some nights at the Lost and Found where we'd probably

1353
01:11:39,040 --> 01:11:41,880
Speaker 1: dance not looking too pretty. Okay, let's get to the game.

1354
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:46,639
Speaker 1: A win here, it up, Bill's win the playoffs. It's

1355
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: up and it is good. Wow, bigkets kicking a year

1356
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:56,240
Speaker 1: for Jason Sanders when he comes with eighteen seconds left.

1357
01:11:56,640 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 1: The Dolphins lead at Mine to six. But a big

1358
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: kick for Jason Sanders. It was a big kick for

1359
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders in a game that was all kicking. It

1360
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 1: was a game that had five field goals. And that's it.

1361
01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,080
Speaker 1: I tweeted, you know that old that community, uh, Donald

1362
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 1: Glover scene that's become kind of an iconic gift where

1363
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 1: he swings the apartment door open with the pizzas with

1364
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: a big smile on his face, and all of a sudden,

1365
01:12:22,640 --> 01:12:24,920
Speaker 1: since he's been gone to pick up the pizza, the

1366
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: entire apartment is destroyed. Someone's been shot on the floor,

1367
01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:31,000
Speaker 1: there's a fire. That's how I imagine Jets and Dolphins

1368
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 1: fans if you were like locked away around let's say Thanksgiving,

1369
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,640
Speaker 1: and then you saw what was going on today in

1370
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 1: week eighteen. Really gnarly stuff, but the Dolphins credit them

1371
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: for getting it done. With their third string quarterback, they

1372
01:12:44,400 --> 01:12:47,160
Speaker 1: find a way nine six, their defense becomes the latest

1373
01:12:47,200 --> 01:12:52,040
Speaker 1: defense to shut down a moribund New York attack, and um,

1374
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 1: the five game losing streak for the Dolphins is gone.

1375
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: They finished over five hundred. They calmed things down, and yes,

1376
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: like I said, they'll be playing the Bills next week,

1377
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:04,720
Speaker 1: so listen. Sometimes the dance is ugly, but you get

1378
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 1: into the dance anyway. I was texted during this game

1379
01:13:08,040 --> 01:13:11,640
Speaker 1: with our friend Henry Hodgson, and we're talking about it

1380
01:13:11,680 --> 01:13:15,479
Speaker 1: feels like a preseason game, and he seemed ambivalent over

1381
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,519
Speaker 1: whether his beloved Dolphins would make the playoffs or not.

1382
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:21,600
Speaker 1: The crowd felt a little ambivalent, like they tried to

1383
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,320
Speaker 1: get going at points today. And it was crazy because

1384
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 1: this game meant so much. I I was thinking the

1385
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 1: Patriots will probably lose, so this is essentially a playoff game.

1386
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:34,839
Speaker 1: The whole season has been leading to this. But meanwhile,

1387
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:38,200
Speaker 1: in one TV it's like you see the Bills game

1388
01:13:38,240 --> 01:13:41,759
Speaker 1: and it's like, wow, sports can be so crazy, almost

1389
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,840
Speaker 1: impossibly powerful and strange moments in a game like that,

1390
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:48,160
Speaker 1: And then you can be watching Skyler Thompson and Joe

1391
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 1: Flacco and trading field goals and like everyone trying to

1392
01:13:51,360 --> 01:13:55,200
Speaker 1: convince themselves this matter. In Week eighteen, like as is

1393
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: the way, or Week seventeen in past years, you'll have

1394
01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: a bunch of games that kind of feel like games

1395
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: because guys are already like thinking about their trip to

1396
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 1: Cancoon next week. That wasn't the case here. You could

1397
01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:06,679
Speaker 1: tell on both sides of the ball the teams were

1398
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:09,720
Speaker 1: putting in effort. There was just a real struggle to

1399
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: move the football in any type of efficient way. And

1400
01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:15,439
Speaker 1: of course these teams are both so beat up. Both

1401
01:14:15,479 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 1: sides were including at the quarterback position, that this isn't

1402
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: totally stunning battle lines, bad quarterback play. Those two things

1403
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: the to the Dolphins credit. One of the differences in

1404
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 1: the game, other than a huge Quincy william Quincy Williams

1405
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:32,439
Speaker 1: horse collar tackle that kind of pushed Miami into field

1406
01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 1: goal range before the kick was made, was their ability

1407
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 1: to run the ball. They were the only team that

1408
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:40,679
Speaker 1: could actually do something, uh, which is rushed the ball.

1409
01:14:40,760 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: Neither team could throw and mark. Like I talked about

1410
01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: it back in shoot, it was probably Week five when

1411
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: the Jets lost Breeze Hall and Elijah vera talker on

1412
01:14:50,400 --> 01:14:52,600
Speaker 1: the same day, and I was devastated that day. And

1413
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: it turns out that Breese Hall, who played five games

1414
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 1: this year, was the Jets leading rusher. So while there's

1415
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: been a lot of focus at quarterback in the dysfunction there,

1416
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:05,599
Speaker 1: that tells the story of an offense that completely melted down.

1417
01:15:05,600 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 1: And I think it's probably gonna cost their offensive coordinator's job. Yeah,

1418
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:11,480
Speaker 1: it's It's interesting because this, of course is a Shanahan

1419
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: esk offense, where we're so used to over the years

1420
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: pre Christian McCaffrey watching Shanahan dial up seven different running

1421
01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:21,400
Speaker 1: backs over the course of a year, floods of injuries

1422
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: and it really wouldn't matter. They still get to a

1423
01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,400
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty yards a game. And it was the scheme,

1424
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:27,599
Speaker 1: it was the system and the Jets on a daylight

1425
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 1: today and I'm really since Breefe Hall went down, they

1426
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: had thirty eight yards at one point nine yards per

1427
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: carried today, It's like, you can't It's not just the quarterback.

1428
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:38,720
Speaker 1: You gotta find a way to surround good and bad quarterbacks, uh,

1429
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 1: wanting underhand quarterbacks that are not really skilled to get

1430
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:44,600
Speaker 1: you to the playoffs with something. And they couldn't do that.

1431
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:47,040
Speaker 1: And I mean, the Jets offense really fell asleep. And

1432
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins look so different to us because

1433
01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 1: I don't really view two as a he. I think

1434
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,200
Speaker 1: his numbers are better than who he is. That's just

1435
01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 1: how he feels about. We don't know he's still he's

1436
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 1: still Post con press conference, it didn't sound like McDaniel

1437
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: had a ton of optims. Now Teddy Bridgewater, who was

1438
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:07,120
Speaker 1: active for this game, I think would make a big

1439
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 1: difference because Skyler Thompson was skittish and a problem. Not

1440
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:13,840
Speaker 1: a big difference like they'll go win in Buffalo, but

1441
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:16,960
Speaker 1: but a big difference where you won't be the offense

1442
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:20,519
Speaker 1: that you saw today because Thompson was a problem. The

1443
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:24,200
Speaker 1: offensive lines were problems, but Thompson had much better protection

1444
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: in general than Joe Flacco, who got hit I think

1445
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: ten times and was was kind of fighting for his

1446
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: life out there. That maybe a veteran quarterback could give

1447
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 1: them some chance here because Thompson threw the ball thirty

1448
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 1: one times here for a hundred Bridgewater off and on

1449
01:16:39,439 --> 01:16:41,439
Speaker 1: the field, stay and stay in the game. I mean,

1450
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:43,599
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not I'm not gonna blame him for injuries,

1451
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:45,320
Speaker 1: but his two starts he didn't even get through. And

1452
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 1: I think that's the one thing i'd say about Mike McDaniel. Yes,

1453
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 1: they faded hard and like it's not been impressive. Their

1454
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,320
Speaker 1: offense today just looked completely like a different offense. But

1455
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:56,040
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, without a lot of drama, has found a

1456
01:16:56,080 --> 01:16:58,680
Speaker 1: way to get here in year one with the Dolphins

1457
01:16:58,840 --> 01:17:02,040
Speaker 1: with about as much uh you know, revolving door quarterback

1458
01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: madness as you could ask for the Jets. He also

1459
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:07,120
Speaker 1: went for two fourth and five's in this game from

1460
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 1: close to midfield, which I was surprised, including on the

1461
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 1: opening drive with surprise he did with Skylie Thompson. One

1462
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:16,040
Speaker 1: didn't work. I wasn't worried about Flacco taking advantage. One

1463
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 1: did and then ended up leading to three points, So

1464
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 1: he was he was aggressive to the end. The Jets

1465
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:25,160
Speaker 1: finished the season with thirty three straight drives without a touchdown.

1466
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 1: But at least he got Garrett Wilson, who I think

1467
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: would be my pick for a Rookie of the year,

1468
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:31,639
Speaker 1: just I test wise and a year where there wasn't

1469
01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 1: any huge obvious numbers guys. I think he just looks

1470
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: to me like the best player and he was nine

1471
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 1: nine today. Flacco smartly just tried to throw it to

1472
01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 1: him every single time, even obvious to do in the

1473
01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:44,040
Speaker 1: off season. You just gotta figure out this quarterback thing.

1474
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:47,320
Speaker 1: You've got a good You finally got a really strong roster.

1475
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 1: I think that uh. I think he's a true number

1476
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: one wide receiver. Gett Wilson will only get um better.

1477
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 1: And it was notable Greggy Um. We'll see Black Monday's

1478
01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: coming up. Sorry, New Horizons Monday is coming up, and

1479
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: we'll see how everything plays out in the league. But

1480
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: Salo is probably safe. But just his comments, he would

1481
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: not kind of endorse La Fleora after the game, makes

1482
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:12,600
Speaker 1: you think he's willing or knows he might have to

1483
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,519
Speaker 1: sacrifice a guy that he probably doesn't want to get

1484
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,639
Speaker 1: rid of for his own safety at this point. That's

1485
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 1: what six game losing streaks do. And that's a sad

1486
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,559
Speaker 1: way for the Jet season and it was otherwise filled

1487
01:18:22,600 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 1: with hope a couple of weeks back to end. You

1488
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:27,599
Speaker 1: know what, I hate this stuff though, because I don't

1489
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 1: I'm not convinced that la Flora can't do it. He's

1490
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 1: been around with his brother and everyone else. It's like,

1491
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 1: you went through so much like you were you were.

1492
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:39,400
Speaker 1: You were tagged to play a non functional high draft

1493
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:41,599
Speaker 1: pick who doesn't have it. We all know that now.

1494
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: They didn't know that three months ago, and it's like,

1495
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 1: are we gonna part of his to develop? And I

1496
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:52,720
Speaker 1: think they failed on some level as well too. I

1497
01:18:52,800 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 1: kind of agree with you, but just saying develop Breese

1498
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:57,559
Speaker 1: Hall or Garrett Wilson or other young players on both

1499
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: but already fifty years just picked the wrong guy, like

1500
01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: they picked the wrong dude, you know. But somebody's got

1501
01:19:06,640 --> 01:19:08,280
Speaker 1: to go. And that's what happens when you lose six

1502
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:10,639
Speaker 1: straight games then the season and you could say no,

1503
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 1: but it's like that's kind of the way the owner

1504
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 1: probably wants somebody out. And so I was gonna be like,

1505
01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to said owners should be involved in this,

1506
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: but that's not how this works. All right, just getting

1507
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 1: started here on the a f C. We'll be right

1508
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: back after this, all right, welcome back. By the way,

1509
01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:29,960
Speaker 1: did I mention that I don't think I ever mentioned

1510
01:19:29,960 --> 01:19:33,439
Speaker 1: the final score Dolphins eleven Jet six. And for those

1511
01:19:33,479 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 1: like score, I know that you you detest the safety

1512
01:19:39,240 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 1: on the final play after a fifty yard or from

1513
01:19:41,880 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 1: that your boys didn't trigger a score. Kid did not

1514
01:19:47,280 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 1: that it happened one other time, and it was I

1515
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:52,920
Speaker 1: believe in the NFC title game, Bucks real. There were

1516
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: reporting mistakes out there then, because I was a report

1517
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 1: of the regular season the Bird of Manuel game, the

1518
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,720
Speaker 1: Shaun King almost went to the super ball game. That

1519
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:02,640
Speaker 1: was a bizarre conference champion. All right. So it's a

1520
01:20:02,680 --> 01:20:05,360
Speaker 1: regular season score gummy which has no meaning. It either

1521
01:20:05,479 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: is or it never has any meaning. I guess it's

1522
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:10,439
Speaker 1: my overall viewpoint on score. Well, I would say nothing

1523
01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: has any meaning. Nothing, nothing at all has meaning. If

1524
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:17,200
Speaker 1: you want to be that nihilistic about any No, but

1525
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: but but like you're deciding to score, Gammy has no

1526
01:20:19,600 --> 01:20:21,679
Speaker 1: mean it meant something some people. You know, it meant

1527
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 1: a lot Saturday night in Duval, duv All. Let's go

1528
01:20:28,560 --> 01:20:31,240
Speaker 1: biggest playing the game right here, shotgun for doms. He

1529
01:20:31,320 --> 01:20:33,680
Speaker 1: drops at the blitz when all outlets hit him. He

1530
01:20:33,800 --> 01:20:39,240
Speaker 1: likes to go down, running it down the jacker, running

1531
01:20:39,240 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: it back the jack. You're gonna run it into the end, Zoe.

1532
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: John Jallen scores a touchdap. John Jallen has running back

1533
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:52,719
Speaker 1: for Hey, touch tap for Catson. No do look, well,

1534
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 1: what a man. That's integrity. But that's the measure of

1535
01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:57,720
Speaker 1: the man. Yes it is. Or it's masochistic and I'm

1536
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: into that too, you know both. Great. They deserved it.

1537
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,080
Speaker 1: After a week fourteen, I didn't give it to him.

1538
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: Crawls of the Year put that on the Calls of

1539
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: the Year. He said, this is the biggest play of

1540
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,479
Speaker 1: the game. He didn't hesitate whether it was a fumble

1541
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: or not. That was great. The God of Bongo endorses

1542
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:18,720
Speaker 1: your decision making. Here here here it carries Frank Frangie

1543
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: w O k V with the call Yes, Josh Ellen

1544
01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: scoops up the bumble on the big hit on Joshua

1545
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:32,559
Speaker 1: Dobbs takes it to the house uh. In a game

1546
01:21:32,640 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 1: that the Tennessee Titans, despite being beat up and missing

1547
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:39,960
Speaker 1: their quarterback and bench their second stringer and brought in

1548
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:42,559
Speaker 1: Dobbs who hadn't been on the team but for a

1549
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. They had to lead the whole game, um,

1550
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:48,960
Speaker 1: but let it slip away with two fifty one to

1551
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:55,120
Speaker 1: play the fourth quarter. Twenty to sixteen, the Jaguars are

1552
01:21:56,040 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: the a f C South champions. Calmdown, Serrie, uh, Apple

1553
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 1: watch apologies, modern day nightmare. En Jaguars win the South

1554
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: and the Titans go homemark. I was thinking about Grave

1555
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,920
Speaker 1: Digger h while watching this out on the town because

1556
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: it was like man, Tennessee has been a tough watch

1557
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:21,000
Speaker 1: for weeks on end. I don't see them as a

1558
01:22:21,000 --> 01:22:24,479
Speaker 1: playoff team. I think we got the better operation here, well,

1559
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: but the better operation to go face the Chargers team.

1560
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 1: I like that matchup, but I felt for Grave Digger

1561
01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 1: because this was like Mike Rabel and crew doing everything

1562
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: they possibly could with a guy that's not been who

1563
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,200
Speaker 1: wasn't even on the roster a couple of weeks ago.

1564
01:22:36,240 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 1: At quarterback. I think Dobbs. It was smart what they

1565
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 1: did because Dobbs was the better option in this game.

1566
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 1: He's not perfect, we get that, but that turnover really

1567
01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: was the turning point. I mean the Jacksonville defense because

1568
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:49,720
Speaker 1: they didn't get a great look from Trevor Lawrence in

1569
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:51,479
Speaker 1: the offense. It was not them at their high point,

1570
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: but they the defense allowed a hundred and sixteen yards

1571
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:58,240
Speaker 1: and three points in the second half. Jacksonville ran under

1572
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: fifty offensive players from scrimmage the whole games, So to me,

1573
01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: that showed that you can win different ways. You got

1574
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: just enough from Lawrence. But I think the better team

1575
01:23:06,160 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: one and I feel bad for Titans fans, but I

1576
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 1: think this Jacksonville journey has really shown as much as

1577
01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:14,519
Speaker 1: any team in the league, a team that started completely

1578
01:23:14,600 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 1: unsure of who they were at the beginning of the season,

1579
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 1: and under Doug Peterson. I don't want to overdo the

1580
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 1: culture thing because he took over the worst situation and

1581
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:23,840
Speaker 1: they were There was no way that a culture coaching

1582
01:23:23,920 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: coming to do a better job than what happened last year.

1583
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 1: But I think Doug Peterson there's a lot of credit

1584
01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:31,040
Speaker 1: for allsoalk about development of a quarterback Trevor Lawrence grew

1585
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:34,040
Speaker 1: by leaps and bounds under his watch. I hear you,

1586
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:37,160
Speaker 1: and I'm glad that Jaguars are in much more excited

1587
01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:40,640
Speaker 1: to watch them. Their ceilings way higher. Trevor Lawrence is

1588
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 1: fun to watch. But I felt like the Titans deserved

1589
01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 1: that game. Well, I mean that's I mean, I'd just

1590
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:50,720
Speaker 1: been saying they don't deserves a tricky word. I think

1591
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:54,559
Speaker 1: they outplayed him. They gained him by ninety They're playing

1592
01:23:54,560 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 1: with the backup quarterback here. Uh. Their defense in Jacksonville

1593
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:03,320
Speaker 1: got it done like that bare front where they're putting

1594
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:06,759
Speaker 1: five guys up on the defensive line and it's Trayvon

1595
01:24:06,840 --> 01:24:08,679
Speaker 1: Walker and Josh Allen, who might have had their two

1596
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 1: best games of the year, and Corey Peters kind of

1597
01:24:11,080 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: a random uh free agent pickup uh ends up dominating

1598
01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:17,920
Speaker 1: a Titans offensive line that was the titans biggest problem

1599
01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:21,679
Speaker 1: all season. It popped up here, but Dobbs was bawling out.

1600
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:24,959
Speaker 1: I mean, Dobbs was going back and forth with Lawrence

1601
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,200
Speaker 1: the whole game and was put in a tough spot

1602
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 1: and was doing great. They were kind of out playing them,

1603
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:33,639
Speaker 1: and the Titan the Jack's offense got tight didn't play well.

1604
01:24:33,680 --> 01:24:36,439
Speaker 1: The Titans were a defensive team and was holding them down.

1605
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: If Dobbs had you know, seen that Blitzer and just

1606
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 1: throwing that ball away, like I'm not too confident that

1607
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: Jaguars offense was gonna do anything there and win that game.

1608
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 1: Graver or the everything went wrong for the Titans over

1609
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: the final two months of the year. The only thing

1610
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: that really did go right, although it ended up you know,

1611
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 1: painfully falling, shure, it was this hail Mary that was

1612
01:24:56,200 --> 01:24:59,639
Speaker 1: Joshua Dobbs. Because not only the lose Tanital to the angle,

1613
01:25:00,160 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 1: then the draft pick Malik Wills is kind of a

1614
01:25:02,439 --> 01:25:05,120
Speaker 1: mess and not ready for the moment. He did make

1615
01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 1: the season, you were able to at least go out

1616
01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 1: with your dignity and your held your head held high

1617
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 1: because he really did play well. Yeah, I mean, he

1618
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:13,800
Speaker 1: played a lot better than I think anyone could have

1619
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:17,559
Speaker 1: hoped or expected. And on that last play, you wonder,

1620
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 1: why are you even running a straight drop back with

1621
01:25:21,320 --> 01:25:24,200
Speaker 1: no chip or running back help in the in the

1622
01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: past blocking scheme against the defensive front that has been

1623
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,400
Speaker 1: dominating your backup offensive linemen all game with like four

1624
01:25:30,439 --> 01:25:33,200
Speaker 1: minutes to go and you've been running it, okay. I mean,

1625
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:36,080
Speaker 1: Henry's been popping five to seven yard runs. You get

1626
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 1: a first down there with the run, and you potentially

1627
01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: ice the game. You don't get the first down, you

1628
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: punt it, you pin Jacksonville deep. It was aggressive, but

1629
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 1: they were aggressive with him throughout the night, like he

1630
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:48,679
Speaker 1: hit those third and longs. They weren't running on third

1631
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: and longs like he was hitting those throws against pressure.

1632
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 1: It can I agree with you. It's I was almost

1633
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,880
Speaker 1: surprised how aggressive they were. Uh, but man if he

1634
01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:58,960
Speaker 1: had just seen that. Yeah, they and the game plan

1635
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: obviously was we need Derrick Henry to take us there,

1636
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 1: and they gave him the ball thirty times. On the ground,

1637
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:07,680
Speaker 1: he went over hundred yards but averaged about three and

1638
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: a half yards of carry mark. So you didn't get

1639
01:26:10,040 --> 01:26:13,240
Speaker 1: that big time Derrick Henry game where he he had

1640
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:15,800
Speaker 1: some nice powerful runs, but he couldn't make the big

1641
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,320
Speaker 1: play to kind of win then the game like he's

1642
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 1: done so many times in the past. That's stiff arm.

1643
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:22,360
Speaker 1: That just shows you that he's an impossible human being

1644
01:26:22,360 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 1: to deal with. But yeah, they had the ball for

1645
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 1: almost thirty seven minutes, and I think it was like

1646
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: let's keep the ball out of Jacksonville's hands so they

1647
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 1: don't get hot. And it can it can work only

1648
01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:33,799
Speaker 1: so long without a quarterback. And like, but but Dobbs,

1649
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:36,000
Speaker 1: I think, you know, I don't know what. I think

1650
01:26:36,080 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 1: Dobbs is probably secured a clear cut um high end back. Second,

1651
01:26:40,360 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 1: you know, number two quarterback roll a year from year

1652
01:26:42,320 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: from now or a look to that degree. I think

1653
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:47,599
Speaker 1: it's a good quarterback with with you know, he's smart um.

1654
01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: But this was this was Tennessee, another team where like

1655
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 1: down the stretch, you have total quarterback chaos and it's

1656
01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:55,840
Speaker 1: just hard to take them that seriously, Jacks fans, don't

1657
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 1: be annoyed if I'm you know, dismissing this because the

1658
01:26:58,920 --> 01:27:02,919
Speaker 1: offense scored thirty points here. Laurence still played absolutely perfect

1659
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: until missing Kirk on that open touchdown to start the

1660
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:07,800
Speaker 1: third quarter, like he was pitching a perfect game. Didn't

1661
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 1: have anything to do with him. Their lights out. It's

1662
01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: good that their defense is playing better. I almost felt

1663
01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:15,559
Speaker 1: like they got this out of the way. They almost

1664
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 1: knew they were supposed to win this. They were heavy favorites.

1665
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:20,640
Speaker 1: They've played a little tight, they got through it. I

1666
01:27:20,640 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: think they'll play better in the playoffs and they'll be

1667
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: fun to watch. That place was rocking. I love this

1668
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:28,599
Speaker 1: game because they were hitting. It felt like a playoff game.

1669
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: It was, so that's a good home field advantage they

1670
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 1: have there. It's kind of slept on a little bit

1671
01:27:33,560 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: like that. That fan base endured a lot of losing

1672
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:39,919
Speaker 1: after that. You know, you know that really special running seventeen,

1673
01:27:40,280 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 1: but it's been terrible since it was the biggest crowd

1674
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 1: in that stadium since they've pulled the tarps off. They

1675
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:51,519
Speaker 1: were like hitting like crazy. It really felt like a

1676
01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:54,559
Speaker 1: playoff game almost every play, just like it was popping.

1677
01:27:54,640 --> 01:27:57,719
Speaker 1: They were that way back in when when this happened.

1678
01:27:57,720 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: But with it with Blake Portles at quarterback, now you

1679
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: something where it's like, wait a minute, this could last

1680
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,240
Speaker 1: for a while. This is different. This is a different

1681
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:07,280
Speaker 1: field they and yes they go out on a five

1682
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:10,439
Speaker 1: game winning streak the Titans, I believe was what seven

1683
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:13,880
Speaker 1: seven straight. They scored more than twenty points on that

1684
01:28:14,240 --> 01:28:16,640
Speaker 1: losing streak one time. Man, these like all these a

1685
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 1: FC teams are like, please pull us from the playoff

1686
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: rames exactly. So the Titans have a lot of work

1687
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:23,719
Speaker 1: to do and We'll see what happens with them next Uh.

1688
01:28:23,760 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: And the Jaguars get the Chargers in their building as

1689
01:28:28,320 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: a division champion. How about that? Let's move on next stop.

1690
01:28:34,240 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: It's all left shod Mames looks that holds the ball,

1691
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:45,600
Speaker 1: holds it. He's got McKennon touchdown Chence City on a

1692
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:50,480
Speaker 1: basketball shotle pass straight ahead to the amazing Jerick McKinnon.

1693
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:54,960
Speaker 1: Why I gotta think of Patrick Mahomes is the amazing one.

1694
01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:57,880
Speaker 1: And Jack McKinnon has been done a nice job finding

1695
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 1: a niche in that offense and catch little miracle shovel passes.

1696
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 1: Uh like that. The other Saturday Saturday game was a

1697
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:12,559
Speaker 1: easy thirty one to thirteen Kansas City win over the Raiders.

1698
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 1: With the win because of the unusual, unprecedented circumstances in

1699
01:29:18,520 --> 01:29:23,480
Speaker 1: our league over the last ten days, by winning percentage

1700
01:29:24,640 --> 01:29:26,680
Speaker 1: by playing one more extra game, the Chiefs are the

1701
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:28,599
Speaker 1: number one seed in the a f C and get

1702
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:30,840
Speaker 1: the by that comes with it. Of course, with the

1703
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:35,160
Speaker 1: caveat Greggy that if the Chiefs and the Bengals were

1704
01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: to meet in the a f C, Chiefs and the Bills,

1705
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:39,960
Speaker 1: I should say, were to meet an af C title game,

1706
01:29:40,160 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 1: it would be on a neutral field. But the Chiefs,

1707
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:44,920
Speaker 1: once again the top seed in the f C, thinking like,

1708
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:48,240
Speaker 1: I'm a Vegas for that game? Is that a possibility?

1709
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 1: They'll just go to Indianapolis. Get them out of there now,

1710
01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 1: they've already told them they've rejected the NFL. I guess

1711
01:29:56,240 --> 01:30:00,639
Speaker 1: that was the NFL. If the championship game, what would

1712
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:03,640
Speaker 1: have happened when was this booked? Well, they would have

1713
01:30:03,640 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 1: found a different I wouldn't have gone in with that

1714
01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:08,400
Speaker 1: as a possible scenario. They've they've known for a while.

1715
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:10,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do know that I believe

1716
01:30:10,760 --> 01:30:13,360
Speaker 1: Phil Phil's daughter has been, you know, participating at that event.

1717
01:30:13,439 --> 01:30:16,880
Speaker 1: So the city of Indianapolis and UM Jim Rasay and

1718
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: the people of Lucas oil Field UM said no, we

1719
01:30:21,120 --> 01:30:24,320
Speaker 1: don't want the a f C championship game. We're gonna

1720
01:30:24,360 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: be loyal to the volleyball sand people. Okay, I respect it.

1721
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,240
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't think there's extremely loyal I

1722
01:30:30,240 --> 01:30:32,519
Speaker 1: do think it's safe to say there's no sand involved here.

1723
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 1: I think they're they're just inside. I don't know, I

1724
01:30:37,640 --> 01:30:41,040
Speaker 1: think about what this is. I don't know. Maybe do

1725
01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:45,200
Speaker 1: you guys know I mean, I think that volleys all over.

1726
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:48,040
Speaker 1: If you're in the Midwest, where can you Where do

1727
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,320
Speaker 1: you get a chance to play beach volleyball? You don't

1728
01:30:50,360 --> 01:30:51,680
Speaker 1: live in the Midwest. If you want to do that,

1729
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:54,720
Speaker 1: maybe there's a concert within the Midwest of people that

1730
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:58,719
Speaker 1: have always dream maybe by by a lakeside in the summer,

1731
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 1: but not in in January. I'm just saying, if you

1732
01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:03,679
Speaker 1: if you take a bacco and truck in some sand,

1733
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:05,800
Speaker 1: you could probably make a lot of dreams come true.

1734
01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 1: Asking them too much for Midwestern civilian. We've paid no

1735
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 1: attention to nil uh and this game, Like I was

1736
01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:19,280
Speaker 1: hoping this wouldn't be that kind of a game because

1737
01:31:19,320 --> 01:31:21,200
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't want to give my whole weekend

1738
01:31:21,240 --> 01:31:22,920
Speaker 1: to the NFL. I thought I'll catch up to this

1739
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:25,960
Speaker 1: at the end. You want to stand fast and yeah,

1740
01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 1: this thing was what we thought it might be, which

1741
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:32,040
Speaker 1: is the Chiefs to VIC That's what I'm saying. I

1742
01:31:32,080 --> 01:31:33,720
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs have to feel good that they've been

1743
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 1: getting pass rush over the last month. Now, some of

1744
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:39,240
Speaker 1: that could be opponent related, but man Chris Jones had

1745
01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:42,000
Speaker 1: one of the best games any defensive lineman had all season.

1746
01:31:42,080 --> 01:31:44,599
Speaker 1: Six QB hats, QB hits in one game, but car

1747
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:50,519
Speaker 1: Loftis and Dunlop since Week fourteen their fifth in pressure rate.

1748
01:31:50,600 --> 01:31:53,080
Speaker 1: Before that they were twenty six. So their defensive line

1749
01:31:53,080 --> 01:31:55,479
Speaker 1: has been getting after my homes kind of put the cherry,

1750
01:31:55,520 --> 01:31:57,559
Speaker 1: I think on his m v P case. To me,

1751
01:31:57,600 --> 01:32:00,320
Speaker 1: there's not much reason uh to go again them, And

1752
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 1: I think this game was kind of a reminder how

1753
01:32:01,720 --> 01:32:03,679
Speaker 1: they've done it differently. They're doing it with two tight

1754
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 1: ends and a lot of plays under center, and you know,

1755
01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 1: throwing the balls shorter. His average depth of target is shorter.

1756
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:13,679
Speaker 1: Like at the different homes. You get the spectacular plays,

1757
01:32:13,680 --> 01:32:15,439
Speaker 1: but it's a different type of Chiefs offense. That's who

1758
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:17,360
Speaker 1: they've been. It's a different offense. You're right, because it's

1759
01:32:17,400 --> 01:32:20,559
Speaker 1: been very running back tight end centric, a huge chunk,

1760
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:23,320
Speaker 1: a higher percentage than any of his careers seasons. Of

1761
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:26,559
Speaker 1: his touchdown passes have been short touchdown passes to running

1762
01:32:26,560 --> 01:32:28,559
Speaker 1: backs and tight ends, and you see it. The great

1763
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:30,679
Speaker 1: red zone team they are, they've been good. Like their

1764
01:32:30,720 --> 01:32:34,719
Speaker 1: defense to your point, like pressured Stidham at on forty

1765
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:36,800
Speaker 1: five point two of his dropbacks, their highest rate for

1766
01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and three seasons. I wanted to see if

1767
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 1: Stidham could come back and do it did last week

1768
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,599
Speaker 1: against a great Niners defense, and it didn't even come

1769
01:32:43,640 --> 01:32:47,759
Speaker 1: close to happening. I mean, that's fine. It was He's fine,

1770
01:32:47,840 --> 01:32:50,200
Speaker 1: But I mean last week was like a magical performance,

1771
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:52,599
Speaker 1: like is he Brock? Pretty? Like? Did they clone Brock?

1772
01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:55,040
Speaker 1: Purty and Britain may turn them into Jared Stidham. They

1773
01:32:55,080 --> 01:32:57,000
Speaker 1: did not look at this way. Mark. The first super

1774
01:32:57,040 --> 01:32:59,960
Speaker 1: Bowl we ever went to was that Lucas Oil Stadium.

1775
01:33:00,240 --> 01:33:03,160
Speaker 1: It was Indianapolis. They got the bid because of the

1776
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:05,360
Speaker 1: new stadium. I remember that week and it was a

1777
01:33:05,400 --> 01:33:09,759
Speaker 1: great they got beautiful weather. Um that was so Greggy's

1778
01:33:09,800 --> 01:33:13,320
Speaker 1: blocked it out because of the outcome of the game itself.

1779
01:33:13,840 --> 01:33:16,200
Speaker 1: But I don't know if the Colts get another super Bowl,

1780
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:18,920
Speaker 1: this is your chances of city to get something I

1781
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:20,800
Speaker 1: could be better than the super Bowl because it's the

1782
01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:23,559
Speaker 1: two best teams that you say yourself, Greggy, I could

1783
01:33:23,600 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: get the two best teams in football in your city

1784
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:28,640
Speaker 1: for a huge game, and instead you're gonna have the

1785
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:33,080
Speaker 1: Central Zone Invitational, Uh in the building. It's just like

1786
01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 1: it's not too late to make a couple of it.

1787
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:38,080
Speaker 1: Does seem like you could send send the central zone

1788
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:41,680
Speaker 1: volleyball um operation to a different indoor facility. Does we

1789
01:33:41,760 --> 01:33:46,000
Speaker 1: feel possible? Um? You know, Phil Wesseling, I believe his

1790
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:48,160
Speaker 1: daughter has been playing at this tournament in the past,

1791
01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:53,160
Speaker 1: and he's thinking, there ain't gonna be a Bill's Chiefs

1792
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:56,320
Speaker 1: a f C championship. I see here you go with that.

1793
01:33:57,400 --> 01:33:59,519
Speaker 1: But good job, Greg, just blew my left ear drum

1794
01:33:59,560 --> 01:34:04,920
Speaker 1: ountin alright, Stilla was so is very athletic. I think

1795
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:06,760
Speaker 1: he'll get a backup job because of that. I think

1796
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 1: he played quite well in this game overall. And I

1797
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:13,360
Speaker 1: already a backup, right he does have that job. Well,

1798
01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 1: he's a free agent. It's wide open. I he showed

1799
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:19,639
Speaker 1: way more than I would have ever expected in these

1800
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: two games, just like last week alone. Would get you

1801
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,680
Speaker 1: like they had no clue that he was, that he

1802
01:34:24,720 --> 01:34:26,519
Speaker 1: could run as well as he could, or that he

1803
01:34:26,840 --> 01:34:28,800
Speaker 1: had the arm that he could And uh, I did

1804
01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:30,599
Speaker 1: have a clue, could areas Tony could be this good?

1805
01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:34,559
Speaker 1: But I think it's pretty talentane man, how powerful and

1806
01:34:34,640 --> 01:34:36,559
Speaker 1: shifty he is going into the playoffs, and what a

1807
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:38,519
Speaker 1: big deal and also the best play in this game

1808
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:41,360
Speaker 1: that didn't count was the Chiefs in their huddle doing

1809
01:34:41,360 --> 01:34:43,559
Speaker 1: the ring around the rosie with their arms around each other,

1810
01:34:43,960 --> 01:34:46,080
Speaker 1: like swirling around, then coming out of it like a

1811
01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:48,960
Speaker 1: hurricane into a bizarre position. They wound up as a

1812
01:34:49,000 --> 01:34:52,920
Speaker 1: trick play with Tony scoring. It got reversed by a flag,

1813
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:54,360
Speaker 1: but then he scored the next play. I think it's

1814
01:34:54,360 --> 01:34:56,080
Speaker 1: almost he's like their secret weapon. They give up like

1815
01:34:56,080 --> 01:34:58,360
Speaker 1: a third round compensatory pick for him. Like what do

1816
01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:00,679
Speaker 1: you think Mark Davis and Charles would and talk about.

1817
01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:02,720
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not the first time we've seen

1818
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:05,840
Speaker 1: them just pounding always Wood's in there. Yeah, I don't

1819
01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 1: know Raiders history. Do you think they have a real friendship,

1820
01:35:10,600 --> 01:35:12,840
Speaker 1: But I think it's a it's one of those friendships

1821
01:35:12,880 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 1: that's by you. I think they're talking ball. I mean

1822
01:35:15,360 --> 01:35:17,559
Speaker 1: you could say a lot about Mark Davis. Do you

1823
01:35:17,560 --> 01:35:20,160
Speaker 1: think he's asking like who should be my quarterback next year? Well?

1824
01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:21,800
Speaker 1: I mean maybe a little bit of that, but more

1825
01:35:21,920 --> 01:35:23,360
Speaker 1: just talking about the game in front of that guy

1826
01:35:23,439 --> 01:35:25,680
Speaker 1: is a football guy. If nothing else, he is the

1827
01:35:25,720 --> 01:35:28,960
Speaker 1: son of the ultimate football guy. Didn't can you know

1828
01:35:29,200 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: watch football every day of his life? I think they're

1829
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 1: just talking ball. Our friend Bert Brier did put out

1830
01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:38,519
Speaker 1: a report this morning that the Raiders are considering Jimmy

1831
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:43,320
Speaker 1: garoppolo obvious ties to Josh McDaniels, as their lead man

1832
01:35:43,360 --> 01:35:46,160
Speaker 1: next season. We'll get thank you for bringing that up.

1833
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:49,400
Speaker 1: We'll get into it um later on in the week

1834
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:52,400
Speaker 1: or whatever, but like, is that enough grade over Derek Carr?

1835
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:57,839
Speaker 1: I think it's almost like apples and apples. That's justin

1836
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: before we take a break, before the break. I forgot

1837
01:36:00,960 --> 01:36:04,960
Speaker 1: to do this for the last game. You know what,

1838
01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: he's again showing he's a man of principle. He actually

1839
01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:11,800
Speaker 1: acknowledged that he ignored the concept of bongoes a while back,

1840
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:15,400
Speaker 1: and in this same situation now he's gone bongos and

1841
01:36:15,439 --> 01:36:17,760
Speaker 1: he's gone, I'll remind you that I lost my lock

1842
01:36:18,000 --> 01:36:21,080
Speaker 1: and like it says a lot about his personal lost everything,

1843
01:36:21,120 --> 01:36:23,680
Speaker 1: and yours was in a more dramatic way. But I

1844
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:26,040
Speaker 1: did the same thing the previous week. You get behind

1845
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:28,640
Speaker 1: your team and you kind of try to put that

1846
01:36:28,760 --> 01:36:32,320
Speaker 1: positive energy. It just doesn't work out sometimes. Right now,

1847
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:36,240
Speaker 1: got detached and I love the integrity, but I love

1848
01:36:36,320 --> 01:36:38,720
Speaker 1: like execution even better. So we do want to get

1849
01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:42,320
Speaker 1: that with the game. Yes, for the next lock. I

1850
01:36:42,360 --> 01:36:46,800
Speaker 1: will remember Grave Digger is the only person attached to

1851
01:36:46,920 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: us that gave Christmas gifts. We didn't give them anyone.

1852
01:36:49,400 --> 01:36:53,400
Speaker 1: He gave nice little uh Guinness flavored chocolates had refused

1853
01:36:53,400 --> 01:36:57,200
Speaker 1: with Guinness beer. Wonderful gift had one kind of a

1854
01:36:57,200 --> 01:36:59,920
Speaker 1: wild thing to pick. I was trying to I texted

1855
01:37:01,280 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: to do that, and then he said, hey, listen, I

1856
01:37:03,200 --> 01:37:06,000
Speaker 1: looked interesting, and yeah, I know Mark likes beer. And

1857
01:37:06,040 --> 01:37:09,280
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, that's true. I was wondering if

1858
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:11,080
Speaker 1: I alone got that gift and you guys got like

1859
01:37:11,240 --> 01:37:14,840
Speaker 1: rose scented, you know, bathroom spray or something gross. All right,

1860
01:37:14,920 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 1: let's take a break, will be right back. All right, Um,

1861
01:37:20,200 --> 01:37:22,920
Speaker 1: before we welcome in our buddy Nick Shook for the

1862
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:26,960
Speaker 1: last time this season, we should clarify that Greg, you

1863
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:30,920
Speaker 1: and I had a locked. Glad, we're going back to

1864
01:37:31,479 --> 01:37:35,639
Speaker 1: settle this. You just you just pointed fingers a graver

1865
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:39,000
Speaker 1: for not you know, in a clean way. Yeah, it's

1866
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:42,000
Speaker 1: like sloppier than Patriots special teams. Right now, we have

1867
01:37:42,080 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: to clean it up. Four heads are gonna very ugly

1868
01:37:44,920 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 1: for your professionalism. All right, Let's now check in with

1869
01:37:48,840 --> 01:37:51,599
Speaker 1: the other team that played on that fateful Monday night

1870
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:54,880
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. The Bengals, who were looking to finish the

1871
01:37:54,920 --> 01:37:58,679
Speaker 1: regular season on high even though they are peeved about

1872
01:37:58,720 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 1: the league's rule changes ahead of the playoffs. Is going

1873
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:08,320
Speaker 1: to throw from here and brought down comes out, which

1874
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:14,480
Speaker 1: for a touchdown, but BEng golf knocking away Trey Hendrickson

1875
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:18,320
Speaker 1: stripped it away from Anthony Brown hand a tree covered

1876
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:23,080
Speaker 1: in the end zone for a Cincinnati touchdown. That's what

1877
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:28,600
Speaker 1: you call taking care of business. Dan Horde Dave Lapham

1878
01:38:28,600 --> 01:38:33,519
Speaker 1: with the call. Cincinnati Bengals jumped out ahead early on

1879
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:38,680
Speaker 1: the Ravens and kind of coasted from there to sixteen.

1880
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:42,479
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow through for a touchdown, Joe Mixon ran for another,

1881
01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:45,519
Speaker 1: and uh pulled a coin out from his sock and

1882
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:48,400
Speaker 1: and flipped it in the air to mock the NFL's

1883
01:38:48,439 --> 01:38:52,080
Speaker 1: decision to potentially decide a playoff game if it were

1884
01:38:52,080 --> 01:38:54,960
Speaker 1: to happen with the Ravens by a coin flip for

1885
01:38:55,040 --> 01:38:58,919
Speaker 1: home field, that's not happening because Cincinnati took care of business.

1886
01:38:59,320 --> 01:39:03,120
Speaker 1: They are twelve for Baltimore Tenant seven. Nick shook the

1887
01:39:03,160 --> 01:39:07,120
Speaker 1: pipe is here. I'm here. I'm here to flex in

1888
01:39:07,240 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 1: representation of the Bengals who turned away all the criticism

1889
01:39:12,240 --> 01:39:15,040
Speaker 1: and all the consternation regarding the coin flip and said,

1890
01:39:15,040 --> 01:39:16,639
Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna go out. We're gonna take

1891
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:19,840
Speaker 1: care of business as a playoff team and a title

1892
01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:23,280
Speaker 1: contending team should do. Wasn't the prettiest game, guys. Now,

1893
01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:25,720
Speaker 1: they jumped all over him early thanks to those takeaways.

1894
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:28,519
Speaker 1: They really should send the Ravens a gift basket, provided

1895
01:39:28,600 --> 01:39:30,639
Speaker 1: they don't run into them again in the postseason, which

1896
01:39:30,640 --> 01:39:34,320
Speaker 1: we'll see, because they did them a huge favor by

1897
01:39:34,320 --> 01:39:36,679
Speaker 1: playing their third string quarterback this week and protecting Tyler

1898
01:39:36,720 --> 01:39:38,160
Speaker 1: Huntley in the event that he has to play in

1899
01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Anthony Brown mall probably a nice kid in

1900
01:39:41,439 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 1: Oregon product, clearly not suited for a game of this magnitude.

1901
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: Two very ugly interceptions early. You saw the strip sack

1902
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:51,280
Speaker 1: recovered for a touchdown there. That was the Bengals route

1903
01:39:51,280 --> 01:39:53,320
Speaker 1: to victory. They jumped all over and put twenty one

1904
01:39:53,360 --> 01:39:55,680
Speaker 1: points on the board from those takeaways. They go into

1905
01:39:55,720 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 1: the half of the seven lead, and that was pretty

1906
01:39:58,200 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 1: much all she wrote. Because the second half they didn't

1907
01:40:00,280 --> 01:40:02,559
Speaker 1: even break a hunted yards offense. That's something that they

1908
01:40:02,560 --> 01:40:04,639
Speaker 1: need to figure out going forward. They gotta figure out

1909
01:40:04,640 --> 01:40:06,840
Speaker 1: what the Ravens did defensively that shut them down. They

1910
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:09,400
Speaker 1: missed some opportunities. Joe Burrowhead Jamar Chase open for a

1911
01:40:09,439 --> 01:40:11,000
Speaker 1: touchdown under threw them a little bit. There was a

1912
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: couple of the long passes that didn't get completed. They

1913
01:40:13,080 --> 01:40:15,680
Speaker 1: could have gone for big games and potentially touchdowns. They

1914
01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:17,400
Speaker 1: don't look quite as strong as they have for the

1915
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:19,639
Speaker 1: last two months, but coming off of what they dealt

1916
01:40:19,680 --> 01:40:21,960
Speaker 1: with last week, I can understand that. And all in all,

1917
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:24,920
Speaker 1: they got the job done. They secured the home game

1918
01:40:25,240 --> 01:40:27,960
Speaker 1: going into next weekend. That's all that really matters to them.

1919
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:30,679
Speaker 1: And we can leave the change in the coin purse,

1920
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:32,840
Speaker 1: go spend it on parking because you don't have to

1921
01:40:32,840 --> 01:40:34,920
Speaker 1: spend it or use a quarter to flip it to

1922
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:36,920
Speaker 1: figure out where you're playing next week. It will be

1923
01:40:37,000 --> 01:40:39,599
Speaker 1: fine for that number one. Although that's you know, when

1924
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:41,799
Speaker 1: you talk about these players, salaries not a huge issue.

1925
01:40:41,920 --> 01:40:45,479
Speaker 1: I also use like a card now to pay for parking.

1926
01:40:45,520 --> 01:40:49,320
Speaker 1: I don't even use yeah because you live in l A. Yeah,

1927
01:40:49,360 --> 01:40:53,519
Speaker 1: well it's it's instructive of us. But I mean, they

1928
01:40:53,560 --> 01:40:55,120
Speaker 1: were messy down the stretch. Shook, and I think I

1929
01:40:55,200 --> 01:40:56,920
Speaker 1: said a lot about the Ravens. They one drive of

1930
01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:58,720
Speaker 1: their last ten that went over twelve yards, and it

1931
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 1: kind of looked like if there were these big misconnections.

1932
01:41:01,280 --> 01:41:03,000
Speaker 1: The biggest concern for me because I'm not really I

1933
01:41:03,040 --> 01:41:05,240
Speaker 1: just kind of this Week eighteen stuff. I'm willing to

1934
01:41:05,320 --> 01:41:07,639
Speaker 1: let it blow away. But Alex Kappa was carded off

1935
01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:10,120
Speaker 1: the field with a left ankle. You already have Lyle

1936
01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:12,360
Speaker 1: Collins out. That's your entire the entire right side of

1937
01:41:12,360 --> 01:41:14,240
Speaker 1: your line. This what happened to him last year when

1938
01:41:14,280 --> 01:41:17,320
Speaker 1: they were trying to, you know, say, keep Joe Burrow upright.

1939
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:19,800
Speaker 1: So that's that just as a lingering concern for me,

1940
01:41:20,320 --> 01:41:23,160
Speaker 1: But I really thought at least it showed their defense,

1941
01:41:23,200 --> 01:41:27,200
Speaker 1: which were turnover ball hawks last January, that they could

1942
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:30,160
Speaker 1: do it again today. And they prayed on a quarterback

1943
01:41:30,200 --> 01:41:32,479
Speaker 1: that was not ready for prime time. But this Ravens

1944
01:41:32,520 --> 01:41:35,240
Speaker 1: team in general, I mean rap Report reported this morning

1945
01:41:35,240 --> 01:41:39,240
Speaker 1: that it is completely essentially said that no one truly

1946
01:41:39,280 --> 01:41:41,880
Speaker 1: knows if Lamar Jackson will be ready for the wild

1947
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:43,960
Speaker 1: card matchup, and it just seems like it's trending in

1948
01:41:44,000 --> 01:41:45,920
Speaker 1: the direction of like, are we gonna see him again

1949
01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: this season, and if we don't and you get this

1950
01:41:48,360 --> 01:41:51,920
Speaker 1: or Tyler Huntley next week, I love Cincinnati's chances. You know,

1951
01:41:51,920 --> 01:41:56,360
Speaker 1: my friend Peter Schrager, he was on Bill Simmons Football podcast, uh,

1952
01:41:56,360 --> 01:41:58,160
Speaker 1: and I happened to catch on Twitter. They had a

1953
01:41:58,160 --> 01:42:01,280
Speaker 1: conversation about this, and you know, Schreeger's pluged in as anybody,

1954
01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:03,640
Speaker 1: and he didn't report directly that it was something he

1955
01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:06,360
Speaker 1: was hearing from the Ravens, but he's certainly in the

1956
01:42:06,360 --> 01:42:09,479
Speaker 1: conversation that he was having about the subject of Lamar

1957
01:42:09,600 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 1: Jackson and his continuing absence kind of let it hang

1958
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:17,680
Speaker 1: out there that there might be more to this, potentially

1959
01:42:18,360 --> 01:42:22,720
Speaker 1: than just an injury with his uncertain financial future. And

1960
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:24,720
Speaker 1: I just thought it was notable coming from Schraeger the

1961
01:42:24,720 --> 01:42:28,800
Speaker 1: way he, you know, had that conversation. Interesting thought, It

1962
01:42:28,920 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: is fascinating. Is also is weird to look at the

1963
01:42:31,840 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 1: different reports about whether Lamar is gonna play next week,

1964
01:42:34,240 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 1: or that they're feeling confident or they're not feeling confident,

1965
01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:39,719
Speaker 1: and it like changes depending on which reporter you listen

1966
01:42:39,800 --> 01:42:42,519
Speaker 1: to and what time of the day and which day

1967
01:42:42,560 --> 01:42:45,479
Speaker 1: it is. But to me, action speak louder the Ravens

1968
01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:48,679
Speaker 1: knew the most likely outcome here was they were gonna

1969
01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:51,680
Speaker 1: lose this game with a backup and that they were

1970
01:42:51,680 --> 01:42:55,040
Speaker 1: going to go back to Cincinnati next week. That's exactly

1971
01:42:55,040 --> 01:42:59,559
Speaker 1: what's happening. They ended up sitting some of their starters,

1972
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:03,599
Speaker 1: include Huntley, who is the key one that they really

1973
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:06,720
Speaker 1: didn't want to lose if they don't have Lamar. To me,

1974
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:09,599
Speaker 1: you wouldn't sit Huntley if you felt like you needed

1975
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:12,080
Speaker 1: this game, or if that you're confident Lamar. It's it's

1976
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:14,160
Speaker 1: an awkward Week eight team thing. I hate this. When

1977
01:43:14,160 --> 01:43:16,000
Speaker 1: they played each other twice in a row. I think

1978
01:43:16,040 --> 01:43:18,400
Speaker 1: the Bengals, if I had to pick, might be the

1979
01:43:18,439 --> 01:43:20,360
Speaker 1: best team in the NFL, and yet I think this

1980
01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:23,360
Speaker 1: is an awkward matchup next week for them. It's a

1981
01:43:23,360 --> 01:43:26,519
Speaker 1: division matchup. A very good defense, one of the only

1982
01:43:26,560 --> 01:43:29,599
Speaker 1: defenses in the league, if healthy shook that I think

1983
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 1: can hold down Cincinnati's offense and just ugly it up,

1984
01:43:33,439 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 1: especially if they can get any quarterback play. Yeah, you

1985
01:43:36,080 --> 01:43:38,000
Speaker 1: saw an example of that today. I mean, like I said,

1986
01:43:38,000 --> 01:43:39,720
Speaker 1: in the second half, that couldn't break a hundred yards.

1987
01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:42,599
Speaker 1: I mean their offense went from being fairly high powered

1988
01:43:42,640 --> 01:43:44,360
Speaker 1: the same offense we've seen for most of the second

1989
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:46,439
Speaker 1: half of the season two one that was borderline and emiic.

1990
01:43:46,800 --> 01:43:49,559
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow just didn't quite look comfortable. Joe Mixon stat

1991
01:43:49,560 --> 01:43:51,880
Speaker 1: line doesn't reflect a game that you'd be proud of.

1992
01:43:52,320 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 1: And they've shifted a while ago. They shifted towards this

1993
01:43:55,280 --> 01:43:57,560
Speaker 1: past heavy offense that incorporated the running back in the

1994
01:43:57,560 --> 01:43:59,280
Speaker 1: passing game a little bit. But you couldn't really rely

1995
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:02,120
Speaker 1: on the run game constantly or that consistently if you

1996
01:44:02,120 --> 01:44:04,240
Speaker 1: are in this situation for four quarters. Next week you

1997
01:44:04,320 --> 01:44:06,000
Speaker 1: talk about ugly in a game up, we get an

1998
01:44:06,040 --> 01:44:08,120
Speaker 1: ugly playoff game where the Bengal sudden they find themselves

1999
01:44:08,120 --> 01:44:09,479
Speaker 1: in a situation where they gotta go down and try

2000
01:44:09,479 --> 01:44:11,240
Speaker 1: and kick a game winning field goal. If it's you know,

2001
01:44:11,280 --> 01:44:13,360
Speaker 1: that close, I could very much see that happening, because

2002
01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:14,800
Speaker 1: if Huntley's in the line up, he gives them a

2003
01:44:14,800 --> 01:44:17,360
Speaker 1: better chance to match them offensively, or at least come

2004
01:44:17,400 --> 01:44:20,120
Speaker 1: close enough close than Anthony Brown, because there's four yards

2005
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:25,160
Speaker 1: for playing today's shookie. Yeah, they got to sit on

2006
01:44:25,200 --> 01:44:27,400
Speaker 1: that lead. There's no guarantee that you're gonna go sit

2007
01:44:27,439 --> 01:44:29,519
Speaker 1: on that lead in a playoff game next week. So Yeah,

2008
01:44:29,600 --> 01:44:31,559
Speaker 1: definitely a little bit concerned about them, But I agree

2009
01:44:31,560 --> 01:44:33,200
Speaker 1: with you might be the best team in the NFL

2010
01:44:33,200 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 1: when all things are running correctly. They just didn't this.

2011
01:44:35,120 --> 01:44:36,640
Speaker 1: I don't think you're getting two weeks of this from

2012
01:44:36,640 --> 01:44:38,880
Speaker 1: the Bengals in a row. The line issue concerns me.

2013
01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:41,439
Speaker 1: But if Tyler Huntley played today and did not turn

2014
01:44:41,479 --> 01:44:43,479
Speaker 1: the ball over and they still just did what they've

2015
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:45,760
Speaker 1: done under Tyler Huntley, would just be a very unimpressive

2016
01:44:45,800 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 1: to the eye offense in terms of production. Like this

2017
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:50,439
Speaker 1: game is very close and goes down to the final minutes,

2018
01:44:50,720 --> 01:44:52,400
Speaker 1: it was the turnovers that set them up for these

2019
01:44:52,479 --> 01:44:54,679
Speaker 1: quick scores. They weren't moving the ball. One more week

2020
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:59,280
Speaker 1: of the Baltimore Ravens. Hey is almost and we can

2021
01:44:59,360 --> 01:45:02,360
Speaker 1: move on as a football world. Hey, before we go

2022
01:45:02,920 --> 01:45:07,200
Speaker 1: to the next game, Shookie um as I said earlier

2023
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:09,720
Speaker 1: in the show, this feels like the Bills that are

2024
01:45:09,720 --> 01:45:11,559
Speaker 1: a great team and a great story, and it just

2025
01:45:11,640 --> 01:45:14,840
Speaker 1: feels like this could be their year. But Cincinnati is

2026
01:45:14,880 --> 01:45:17,040
Speaker 1: a great story too, and they have a great team,

2027
01:45:17,040 --> 01:45:20,120
Speaker 1: and they have also, like the Bills, a tremendous quarterback

2028
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 1: who believes in his team and believes in himself. He

2029
01:45:24,360 --> 01:45:29,000
Speaker 1: was asked after the game while wearing a giant white

2030
01:45:29,200 --> 01:45:34,559
Speaker 1: turtleneck and looking like a cooler Kevin McAlister from Home Alone. Um.

2031
01:45:34,640 --> 01:45:38,080
Speaker 1: He was asked about the idea of a Cincinnati Bengal

2032
01:45:38,200 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl window windows my whole career and and everybody

2033
01:45:42,000 --> 01:45:44,680
Speaker 1: that that we have in that locker room, all the

2034
01:45:44,720 --> 01:45:47,519
Speaker 1: coaches we have. You know, things are going to change

2035
01:45:47,600 --> 01:45:51,960
Speaker 1: year to year, but uh, our windows always open. M

2036
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:55,479
Speaker 1: He's good with these quotes. That's not my quarterback, but

2037
01:45:55,520 --> 01:45:56,920
Speaker 1: I wish it was. Yeah, I know, every couple of

2038
01:45:56,920 --> 01:46:00,720
Speaker 1: weeks he drops a verbal dime like that. And in

2039
01:46:00,760 --> 01:46:04,519
Speaker 1: addition to the physical times on the in addition to those,

2040
01:46:06,160 --> 01:46:09,160
Speaker 1: I mean, is nineties fashion completely back? Because it's bad.

2041
01:46:09,240 --> 01:46:12,839
Speaker 1: I got some serious flashbacks there. You know it isn't Ohio,

2042
01:46:12,920 --> 01:46:16,439
Speaker 1: I'd say you just got there. No, that we've reached

2043
01:46:16,439 --> 01:46:19,960
Speaker 1: a tipping point in this, uh the nostalgic culture right

2044
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:23,320
Speaker 1: now when New York Times is doing a profile on

2045
01:46:24,479 --> 01:46:26,920
Speaker 1: the kids of today are now using digital cameras that

2046
01:46:26,960 --> 01:46:29,840
Speaker 1: they're finding in their mom's like and dad's drawers, and

2047
01:46:30,200 --> 01:46:34,080
Speaker 1: because they prefer that to using their phones. There it's

2048
01:46:34,360 --> 01:46:38,800
Speaker 1: ridging a saturation point of that's cute of nostalgia, but

2049
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:42,280
Speaker 1: I guess every generation hits that. So whatever, good luck

2050
01:46:42,280 --> 01:46:44,120
Speaker 1: finding new digital tapes when you run out of the

2051
01:46:44,120 --> 01:46:45,680
Speaker 1: one that you're using that was in the camera to

2052
01:46:45,680 --> 01:46:49,559
Speaker 1: begin with your mom's closet. Just a warning to yeah,

2053
01:46:49,840 --> 01:46:53,160
Speaker 1: let's head Hines Field, where Mike Tomlin was looking to

2054
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:56,679
Speaker 1: keep up one of the most impressive streaks in professional football.

2055
01:46:56,880 --> 01:47:00,519
Speaker 1: Pricket throws it down the middle, touchdown. George Pricke pick

2056
01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:03,680
Speaker 1: it to Pickens from thirty one out here, the Steelers

2057
01:47:03,840 --> 01:47:07,000
Speaker 1: in position to tie it up. This is what makes

2058
01:47:07,000 --> 01:47:11,520
Speaker 1: a quarterback on the edge of becoming a great quarterback.

2059
01:47:11,880 --> 01:47:17,280
Speaker 1: Oh look at that. That's Craig Wolflee something that Kenny

2060
01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:21,120
Speaker 1: Pickett is on the edge of becoming a great quarterback.

2061
01:47:21,240 --> 01:47:25,280
Speaker 1: Now you may or may not agree with Wolflee and

2062
01:47:25,439 --> 01:47:28,839
Speaker 1: Bill Hillgrove of w DV, but those are the vibes

2063
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:34,599
Speaker 1: around the Pittsburgh Steelers after a season ending win over

2064
01:47:34,640 --> 01:47:39,400
Speaker 1: the Browns, the Jets losing again costs the Steelers a

2065
01:47:39,400 --> 01:47:42,040
Speaker 1: playoff spot. It's the Dolphins to take that seventh seed,

2066
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:46,400
Speaker 1: but shook incredible way for it to them to wrap

2067
01:47:46,439 --> 01:47:48,920
Speaker 1: their season. And yes, or Mike Tomlin, he keeps that

2068
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:52,599
Speaker 1: incredible streak of over five hundred seasons. They finished nine

2069
01:47:52,640 --> 01:47:55,280
Speaker 1: and eighty. This is the rebuilding here. This is supposed

2070
01:47:55,280 --> 01:47:57,120
Speaker 1: to be the transitional year for the Steelers, the first

2071
01:47:57,200 --> 01:47:59,840
Speaker 1: year without Ben Roethlisberger, the year that everything just fell

2072
01:47:59,880 --> 01:48:02,599
Speaker 1: a part, except they go nine and eight. He stays

2073
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:05,840
Speaker 1: above five hundred in the season. He finishes there can

2074
01:48:05,840 --> 01:48:08,439
Speaker 1: he Picket is clearly the best quarterback on the roster.

2075
01:48:08,479 --> 01:48:09,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say he's on the edge of being

2076
01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:11,599
Speaker 1: a great quarterback because there's still a lot of things

2077
01:48:11,640 --> 01:48:13,439
Speaker 1: he's gotta work on. But you see the glimpses. You

2078
01:48:13,479 --> 01:48:16,559
Speaker 1: see the decisiveness, You see the fact that he's comfortable

2079
01:48:16,600 --> 01:48:18,360
Speaker 1: in the pocket and he knows what to do when

2080
01:48:18,360 --> 01:48:21,439
Speaker 1: he's under pressure. Let's think about this guy's They finished

2081
01:48:21,439 --> 01:48:23,439
Speaker 1: with a little bit over three hundred yards offense, three

2082
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:26,400
Speaker 1: and thirty seven, nine and fifteen on third down. Yet

2083
01:48:26,479 --> 01:48:28,840
Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett finished with under two hundred passing yards and

2084
01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,280
Speaker 1: completely just thirteen passes. Do you know why they converted

2085
01:48:31,280 --> 01:48:35,080
Speaker 1: those third downs? Because Kenny pick It extended the play

2086
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:39,200
Speaker 1: and found his It's not the stuff that you know,

2087
01:48:39,200 --> 01:48:41,320
Speaker 1: It's not the in between stuff where he overthrows a guy,

2088
01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:43,200
Speaker 1: or he misses a guy, or somebody drops the past

2089
01:48:43,240 --> 01:48:46,360
Speaker 1: Deante Johnson, Connor Heyward, a couple of those today. It's

2090
01:48:46,400 --> 01:48:48,719
Speaker 1: the stuff in the key downs, and that's what excites

2091
01:48:48,760 --> 01:48:50,160
Speaker 1: me about him. I'm not like I said, I'm not

2092
01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:52,120
Speaker 1: gonna say he's on the edge of being a great quarterback.

2093
01:48:52,240 --> 01:48:55,400
Speaker 1: But he's exciting and also exciting. George picking just three

2094
01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 1: catches today, seventy two yards in that touchdown we just

2095
01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:00,559
Speaker 1: played on that highlight. That is a pairing. I cannot

2096
01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:02,800
Speaker 1: wait to see where they go because it's clear they

2097
01:49:02,800 --> 01:49:04,560
Speaker 1: already have that connection. They're just starting to work on

2098
01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:07,160
Speaker 1: those back shoulder fades down the sideline and George Pickens,

2099
01:49:07,200 --> 01:49:09,120
Speaker 1: as we all know at this point, is a freak

2100
01:49:09,200 --> 01:49:12,439
Speaker 1: of nature. If Kenny Picketts continues to develop at the

2101
01:49:12,479 --> 01:49:15,559
Speaker 1: speed he's at right now, and Pickens continues to rise

2102
01:49:15,640 --> 01:49:18,280
Speaker 1: up and get better over the years, man, they're gonna

2103
01:49:18,439 --> 01:49:20,200
Speaker 1: have se North butter watch out. That's gonna be quite

2104
01:49:20,200 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 1: a duo for years to come. So it's a really

2105
01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:24,200
Speaker 1: triumphant way for them to end the season, a season

2106
01:49:24,240 --> 01:49:26,839
Speaker 1: that nobody expected anything out of them. They avoid finishing

2107
01:49:26,840 --> 01:49:29,160
Speaker 1: in the cellar. They finish about five, and they got

2108
01:49:29,160 --> 01:49:30,639
Speaker 1: a lot to be excited. They also have some things

2109
01:49:30,640 --> 01:49:32,360
Speaker 1: they need to address in the off season, but man

2110
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:35,439
Speaker 1: an organization that really knows how to keep things stable

2111
01:49:35,520 --> 01:49:37,560
Speaker 1: even when it looks like everything's against them. It's a

2112
01:49:37,680 --> 01:49:39,920
Speaker 1: very Brown's esque end of the season. I feel like

2113
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:42,879
Speaker 1: they've lost to the Steelers in weeks seventeen slash eighteen

2114
01:49:43,160 --> 01:49:46,599
Speaker 1: like forty seven times. But it's a very Steelers skan

2115
01:49:46,720 --> 01:49:49,640
Speaker 1: because it's sort of to me, reminds me of what

2116
01:49:49,720 --> 01:49:52,240
Speaker 1: happened in Jacksonville a little bit, where you started off

2117
01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:54,719
Speaker 1: with an offense that just look completely lost at See

2118
01:49:55,160 --> 01:49:58,559
Speaker 1: here we are today. You've found a quarterback, you've found

2119
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:00,720
Speaker 1: weapons around them, and off some line that was in

2120
01:50:00,800 --> 01:50:04,120
Speaker 1: tatters in the summer. They're not perfect, but they were competent.

2121
01:50:04,280 --> 01:50:06,880
Speaker 1: The running game grew, Nag Harris turned into something better

2122
01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:09,200
Speaker 1: than we thought. All these little pieces and they're all

2123
01:50:09,200 --> 01:50:11,920
Speaker 1: in the same contract essentially together, and you still have

2124
01:50:12,000 --> 01:50:14,000
Speaker 1: one of the best coaching staffs in the league that

2125
01:50:14,120 --> 01:50:16,719
Speaker 1: never that refused to die this season on any level.

2126
01:50:16,760 --> 01:50:19,519
Speaker 1: I love the Mike Tomlin like situation. I know there's

2127
01:50:19,560 --> 01:50:21,960
Speaker 1: some Steelers fans in the past like we need this

2128
01:50:21,960 --> 01:50:23,639
Speaker 1: guy out of here. He can't get us over the hunt.

2129
01:50:23,800 --> 01:50:26,439
Speaker 1: I'll take Mike. There have been that from Steelers fans

2130
01:50:26,600 --> 01:50:30,439
Speaker 1: absolutely hit me. Would take Tomlin over literally almost every

2131
01:50:30,439 --> 01:50:35,840
Speaker 1: conson what what what that sounds in real time? Like

2132
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:37,439
Speaker 1: Greg does not agree, but I think you have to

2133
01:50:37,479 --> 01:50:44,240
Speaker 1: say straight non losing unbelievable. They should be the playoff

2134
01:50:44,280 --> 01:50:45,880
Speaker 1: team and the playoffs would be more fun with him

2135
01:50:45,880 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: in it. There seven and two in their last nine games.

2136
01:50:48,680 --> 01:50:51,800
Speaker 1: I've always thought it's a little underrated too. And your

2137
01:50:51,840 --> 01:50:54,400
Speaker 1: season with a win because like all the teams that

2138
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:56,519
Speaker 1: make the playoffs don't get to do that except except

2139
01:50:56,560 --> 01:51:00,200
Speaker 1: for one, and the Steelers weren't gonna win the just

2140
01:51:00,240 --> 01:51:02,559
Speaker 1: say the Dealers, we're gonna win the super Bowl. They're

2141
01:51:02,560 --> 01:51:04,720
Speaker 1: gonna probably lose next week to the Bills, to to

2142
01:51:04,960 --> 01:51:07,080
Speaker 1: to to just end the season on a four game

2143
01:51:07,120 --> 01:51:09,160
Speaker 1: winning streak and like, oh we got robbed by what

2144
01:51:09,320 --> 01:51:12,160
Speaker 1: happened and stuff that feels great. I know they would

2145
01:51:12,320 --> 01:51:16,439
Speaker 1: rather go watch a playoff games. Huge success. The season

2146
01:51:16,680 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 1: is for what it was and what it was expected

2147
01:51:19,080 --> 01:51:20,320
Speaker 1: to be and what it seemed like it was going

2148
01:51:20,360 --> 01:51:23,000
Speaker 1: to be in October, a huge success and a lot

2149
01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:27,400
Speaker 1: of reasons, uh for optimism. Speaking of reasons for optimism

2150
01:51:27,439 --> 01:51:30,720
Speaker 1: shook you. You are a lifelong Browns fan. We talked

2151
01:51:30,720 --> 01:51:33,320
Speaker 1: about it on the Thursday podcast podcast a little bit.

2152
01:51:33,520 --> 01:51:36,799
Speaker 1: The Shawn Watson and his underwhelming start to his Brown's

2153
01:51:36,920 --> 01:51:40,960
Speaker 1: career and whether there was any reason for concern. What

2154
01:51:41,040 --> 01:51:42,840
Speaker 1: were your thoughts about his performance in this game and

2155
01:51:42,880 --> 01:51:46,200
Speaker 1: in general the six starts or whatever he made uh

2156
01:51:46,240 --> 01:51:49,840
Speaker 1: the season five starts. I mean, I'm not concerned necessarily

2157
01:51:49,840 --> 01:51:52,559
Speaker 1: with his play. I am concerned about the fit with

2158
01:51:52,560 --> 01:51:54,840
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, whether they know how to properly use

2159
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:56,840
Speaker 1: his talents, because he's kind of shaken off a little

2160
01:51:56,840 --> 01:51:58,599
Speaker 1: bit of the rust with each week. He's not back

2161
01:51:58,600 --> 01:52:00,960
Speaker 1: to where he was still, but you see glimpses of

2162
01:52:01,000 --> 01:52:03,400
Speaker 1: it today. He had no time to throw all day.

2163
01:52:03,520 --> 01:52:05,599
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's defense, which was supposed to be their strength all

2164
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 1: year and wasn't for a good portion of it, but

2165
01:52:07,600 --> 01:52:10,920
Speaker 1: his very opportunistic got after him seven sacks. Could have

2166
01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:13,160
Speaker 1: had ten, maybe even twelve as a team, because he

2167
01:52:13,320 --> 01:52:15,559
Speaker 1: escaped four or five of them on his own. I mean,

2168
01:52:15,600 --> 01:52:18,720
Speaker 1: he's doing everything possible. He made a couple of bad

2169
01:52:18,080 --> 01:52:21,599
Speaker 1: thing forever like some of these sacks I thought were

2170
01:52:21,640 --> 01:52:24,160
Speaker 1: on him. Sacks are a QB stating to me that's

2171
01:52:24,160 --> 01:52:26,200
Speaker 1: been the number one problem he's had the last six

2172
01:52:26,240 --> 01:52:29,320
Speaker 1: weeks is he's holding the ball kind of like a

2173
01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:32,880
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. And he's always been a little bit like that,

2174
01:52:32,880 --> 01:52:35,640
Speaker 1: but you haven't seen this spectacular plays to kind of

2175
01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:37,680
Speaker 1: offset that. Well. I mean, Greg, you can even go

2176
01:52:37,720 --> 01:52:39,400
Speaker 1: back to his time in Houston years ago. My biggest

2177
01:52:39,400 --> 01:52:40,880
Speaker 1: issue was him with the fact that he'd run out

2178
01:52:40,880 --> 01:52:42,840
Speaker 1: of clean pockets. That was not the case today, but

2179
01:52:42,920 --> 01:52:44,800
Speaker 1: that was his issue for a long time. So that's

2180
01:52:44,800 --> 01:52:46,280
Speaker 1: where I go to with the fit. I don't know

2181
01:52:46,320 --> 01:52:48,840
Speaker 1: if necessarily this offense is really fit for him. If

2182
01:52:48,920 --> 01:52:50,920
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski in the way that it's set up, I'm

2183
01:52:50,960 --> 01:52:52,760
Speaker 1: telling you they're gonna make a change of defense Qarter.

2184
01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:54,280
Speaker 1: I think they have to at this point based on

2185
01:52:54,320 --> 01:52:56,639
Speaker 1: how they played for the majority of the season. I'm

2186
01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:59,519
Speaker 1: not saying he's gonna get fired, but I understand that

2187
01:52:59,640 --> 01:53:03,200
Speaker 1: Kevin's Ifanski should be under fire for the way that

2188
01:53:03,200 --> 01:53:05,320
Speaker 1: this team performed this year, especially in key moments. He

2189
01:53:05,320 --> 01:53:07,120
Speaker 1: looked like he just didn't have a good grasp on

2190
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:09,680
Speaker 1: game management, and I'm just really curious, a little bit

2191
01:53:09,680 --> 01:53:11,920
Speaker 1: concerned about how they proceed from here with him and

2192
01:53:11,960 --> 01:53:13,920
Speaker 1: Watson as a pairing. It shows you because I mean,

2193
01:53:13,920 --> 01:53:15,160
Speaker 1: this was a Coach of the Year a couple of

2194
01:53:15,200 --> 01:53:17,960
Speaker 1: years ago. Everything looked like sky is the limit. They've

2195
01:53:17,960 --> 01:53:20,599
Speaker 1: beating the Steelers and the playoffs, and where they are now.

2196
01:53:20,640 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I think a lot of this can be

2197
01:53:22,240 --> 01:53:25,320
Speaker 1: put on Stefanski. Obviously, I think Joe Woods history, but

2198
01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:28,360
Speaker 1: in house, I wonder what if they wonder what you're wondering.

2199
01:53:28,479 --> 01:53:32,000
Speaker 1: Is Stefanski in his scheme the right fit for Unfortunately

2200
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:34,280
Speaker 1: this massive investment that we've made, and it's like he's

2201
01:53:34,320 --> 01:53:37,519
Speaker 1: gonna that investment has power over the coaching staff. Well,

2202
01:53:37,560 --> 01:53:41,320
Speaker 1: Jimmy Haslem took over Brown's ownership ten years ago now,

2203
01:53:41,479 --> 01:53:43,960
Speaker 1: so the length of this podcast, what a ten years

2204
01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:47,400
Speaker 1: it's been. He's the team is fifty four one oh

2205
01:53:47,439 --> 01:53:52,800
Speaker 1: six and one since then. That's the second worst Mark

2206
01:53:52,840 --> 01:53:54,240
Speaker 1: in the lake. I wish I knew her, the worst

2207
01:53:54,280 --> 01:53:57,719
Speaker 1: of guess he's a Jaguars probably my team, um Mark

2208
01:53:58,040 --> 01:54:00,439
Speaker 1: uh one last thought, you are the number and Bernie

2209
01:54:00,479 --> 01:54:03,160
Speaker 1: cos our supporter. He's in somebody's You're sorry, good father?

2210
01:54:04,200 --> 01:54:07,240
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on him being dismissed from the team's radio

2211
01:54:07,280 --> 01:54:11,120
Speaker 1: broadcast team on Sunday. Earlier in the week, he plays

2212
01:54:11,160 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: a bet on the Browns to win the game. Did

2213
01:54:14,479 --> 01:54:16,479
Speaker 1: he talk about it or something? I don't know, but

2214
01:54:16,520 --> 01:54:21,000
Speaker 1: I just want to But I think it's unfortunate. Um it.

2215
01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:24,639
Speaker 1: You know, you're essentially an NFL league employee when you're

2216
01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:26,800
Speaker 1: operating out of that and we've seen that way and

2217
01:54:27,160 --> 01:54:29,840
Speaker 1: you break a clear league policy. We all we all

2218
01:54:29,840 --> 01:54:32,280
Speaker 1: know about that. I didn't find it interesting that it

2219
01:54:32,320 --> 01:54:35,200
Speaker 1: was reported he bet nineteen thousand, which is his his number.

2220
01:54:35,240 --> 01:54:37,640
Speaker 1: Of course, his jersey on the Browns tell me that

2221
01:54:37,640 --> 01:54:39,680
Speaker 1: Bernie has that much money floating around that he should

2222
01:54:39,680 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 1: be making it. Well, he doesn't now after not winning that.

2223
01:54:43,800 --> 01:54:46,680
Speaker 1: But you know what, Bernie kosar. I love Bernie cos right.

2224
01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:48,880
Speaker 1: I also locked this game up. I locked it up

2225
01:54:48,920 --> 01:54:52,360
Speaker 1: for Bernie kind of on the same Oh. No, he

2226
01:54:52,440 --> 01:54:54,560
Speaker 1: was picking the Browns, so you were not the same page.

2227
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:56,960
Speaker 1: That's good. No, we don't know whether he did he

2228
01:54:57,160 --> 01:54:59,080
Speaker 1: wager on the Browns or do we just know we

2229
01:54:59,120 --> 01:55:06,920
Speaker 1: waged on the game. The Steelers. We're the worst team

2230
01:55:07,000 --> 01:55:10,120
Speaker 1: over the last ten years. A former researcher and now

2231
01:55:10,320 --> 01:55:13,920
Speaker 1: seven ft nine producer Drew Christensen has confirmed to me

2232
01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:16,560
Speaker 1: he can't let go. Drew, by the way, I emailed

2233
01:55:17,160 --> 01:55:20,720
Speaker 1: the research team privately um earlier today to get some

2234
01:55:20,760 --> 01:55:24,480
Speaker 1: information and then he comes in on my I am

2235
01:55:24,560 --> 01:55:27,160
Speaker 1: clients and like, hey, dummy, you should have known this

2236
01:55:27,320 --> 01:55:29,680
Speaker 1: or something like that. I'm like, bro, you gotta let go.

2237
01:55:29,760 --> 01:55:33,320
Speaker 1: You're not in the research department anymore. And I could

2238
01:55:33,400 --> 01:55:36,840
Speaker 1: keep talking about Drew right now because he never talks. No,

2239
01:55:36,920 --> 01:55:38,360
Speaker 1: he's not you know, you can say anything to get

2240
01:55:38,360 --> 01:55:40,760
Speaker 1: a camera on him, like all eight foot four of him.

2241
01:55:41,160 --> 01:55:44,360
Speaker 1: He's just gonna just you know, stew and maybe squash

2242
01:55:44,440 --> 01:55:48,160
Speaker 1: me after the show. Anyway, it's happened before there is, Drew,

2243
01:55:48,240 --> 01:55:50,040
Speaker 1: do you have anything to say? This is your chance.

2244
01:55:50,040 --> 01:55:53,440
Speaker 1: It's week eight team to finally clap back at the

2245
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:58,080
Speaker 1: bozos on the side of the glass, motionless and side.

2246
01:55:58,160 --> 01:56:00,000
Speaker 1: You know what's good though, if it ever comes down

2247
01:56:00,000 --> 01:56:02,880
Speaker 1: into it and it's like on air versus behind the

2248
01:56:02,920 --> 01:56:07,720
Speaker 1: Glass showdown, we've got shook on our team. And and

2249
01:56:07,920 --> 01:56:12,040
Speaker 1: the nice transition there, Greggy the pipe all season and

2250
01:56:12,040 --> 01:56:14,720
Speaker 1: it's it's been a few years now. You've been awesome

2251
01:56:14,760 --> 01:56:17,760
Speaker 1: and a great asset for us helping to cover all

2252
01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:20,920
Speaker 1: these Sunday games. So as another regular season comes to

2253
01:56:20,920 --> 01:56:24,520
Speaker 1: a close, we sincerely thank you, sir. I think you're

2254
01:56:24,520 --> 01:56:28,240
Speaker 1: getting better every year you do this, and uh, you're

2255
01:56:28,280 --> 01:56:31,120
Speaker 1: a stud, buddy, so thank you very much. You know

2256
01:56:31,120 --> 01:56:34,960
Speaker 1: what my parting words will be this um. As a

2257
01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:38,400
Speaker 1: league employee, I do not condone betting on games. However,

2258
01:56:39,240 --> 01:56:41,520
Speaker 1: if my life depended on it, I would always bet

2259
01:56:41,560 --> 01:56:45,240
Speaker 1: on you guys. Okay, well now you're fired, but I'm

2260
01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:50,240
Speaker 1: glad it's pretty clearly laid out in the in the guidelines.

2261
01:56:50,240 --> 01:56:53,040
Speaker 1: But Chookie, thank you very much, buddy, have a great night,

2262
01:56:53,080 --> 01:56:56,720
Speaker 1: get a lift in and thanks. Thanks, We love you,

2263
01:56:56,760 --> 01:57:01,440
Speaker 1: all right, we'll be right back after this. All right,

2264
01:57:01,480 --> 01:57:06,840
Speaker 1: welcome back. Let's head to Denver for a a f

2265
01:57:06,920 --> 01:57:09,480
Speaker 1: C West matchup that had nothing on the line, and

2266
01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:13,280
Speaker 1: yet people were talking all throughout the contest. Will tell

2267
01:57:13,280 --> 01:57:17,040
Speaker 1: you why. First, this play, Fate Russ rolls trees right,

2268
01:57:17,120 --> 01:57:22,960
Speaker 1: throws about wide open receiver Conn seton touchdown Denver twenty

2269
01:57:23,080 --> 01:57:28,520
Speaker 1: yards Russell Wilson to Cartland Sutton. Sutton's second touchdown reception

2270
01:57:28,640 --> 01:57:34,240
Speaker 1: of the season, and he was wide open. Miserable season

2271
01:57:34,240 --> 01:57:36,120
Speaker 1: for the Broncos. We all know that. But and there's

2272
01:57:36,200 --> 01:57:39,520
Speaker 1: Dave Logan ko A, the fact that Russell Wilson showed

2273
01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:41,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of a pulse these last couple of

2274
01:57:41,320 --> 01:57:44,240
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. Um, well, I want to go

2275
01:57:44,280 --> 01:57:46,920
Speaker 1: that far, but it's better than the opposite where he

2276
01:57:46,960 --> 01:57:50,520
Speaker 1: finishes with eight touchdown passes or something. So maybe something,

2277
01:57:50,680 --> 01:57:55,680
Speaker 1: and you also get a win over the Chargers. And

2278
01:57:55,760 --> 01:57:59,919
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had three touchdown passes in the game. Greggy,

2279
01:58:00,120 --> 01:58:02,040
Speaker 1: you watch this game, and what I was alluding to

2280
01:58:02,320 --> 01:58:07,400
Speaker 1: was the Chargers were based on the Ravens Bengals outcome earlier,

2281
01:58:07,400 --> 01:58:09,760
Speaker 1: were locked into the five seed. There was a thought

2282
01:58:09,840 --> 01:58:11,560
Speaker 1: that a lot of the starters wouldn't play, and not

2283
01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:14,160
Speaker 1: only did a lot of Chargers starters play, they played

2284
01:58:14,160 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: deep into the game and one of their key players

2285
01:58:16,040 --> 01:58:18,160
Speaker 1: left on a cart. So a lot of criticism for

2286
01:58:18,160 --> 01:58:20,360
Speaker 1: the head coach, Brendan Staley. Yeah, Mike Williams has a

2287
01:58:20,400 --> 01:58:24,360
Speaker 1: back injury. Ian Rapports said X rays were negative, that

2288
01:58:24,400 --> 01:58:27,440
Speaker 1: they'll be tests on Monday. It didn't look great, although

2289
01:58:27,520 --> 01:58:29,480
Speaker 1: Staley said in the post game that he could have

2290
01:58:29,560 --> 01:58:32,280
Speaker 1: maybe returned to the game. Mike Williams Joey Boast was

2291
01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:34,600
Speaker 1: also shaken up and then just didn't return, but that

2292
01:58:34,640 --> 01:58:39,200
Speaker 1: one didn't seem serious. The starters were pulled by Staley

2293
01:58:39,240 --> 01:58:43,360
Speaker 1: with the score thirty one to twenty Broncos with eleven

2294
01:58:43,400 --> 01:58:47,360
Speaker 1: minutes left. That I'm counting starters as Herbert, but they

2295
01:58:47,360 --> 01:58:50,200
Speaker 1: weren't all the starters, I mean left in the second quarter,

2296
01:58:50,280 --> 01:58:53,920
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, in the fourth quarter, so they

2297
01:58:54,000 --> 01:58:56,400
Speaker 1: kind of got they got the worst of both worlds,

2298
01:58:56,480 --> 01:58:59,640
Speaker 1: which is they've tried to win the game, but the

2299
01:58:59,720 --> 01:59:02,040
Speaker 1: bron goes and old Russ was putting it on him.

2300
01:59:02,280 --> 01:59:05,400
Speaker 1: Here looking at throwing the run to Judy, that's old Russ.

2301
01:59:05,400 --> 01:59:07,760
Speaker 1: So it was crazy. That throw you're talking about was

2302
01:59:07,840 --> 01:59:10,520
Speaker 1: part of a three place, seventy five yard touchdown drive

2303
01:59:10,560 --> 01:59:13,240
Speaker 1: with twenty five seconds left in the first half. When

2304
01:59:13,240 --> 01:59:15,960
Speaker 1: that drive started again twenty five seconds left in the

2305
01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:19,000
Speaker 1: first half, Russ had fourteen passing yards. So it was

2306
01:59:19,000 --> 01:59:21,360
Speaker 1: the rest of all they were running the ball a

2307
01:59:21,360 --> 01:59:25,880
Speaker 1: little bittan context. But but then he finished with two

2308
01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:28,320
Speaker 1: eighty three and three. He suddenly had bombs away. He

2309
01:59:28,320 --> 01:59:33,920
Speaker 1: had three of those beautiful Russell bombs, and down the

2310
01:59:33,960 --> 01:59:36,520
Speaker 1: stretch of this game and the Chargers defense, who were

2311
01:59:36,560 --> 01:59:39,720
Speaker 1: playing all their best players kind of got steamrolled by

2312
01:59:39,800 --> 01:59:43,200
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray and Russell Wilson. So it all was strange,

2313
01:59:43,240 --> 01:59:47,080
Speaker 1: and so is Stealey's explanation afterwards where he said that

2314
01:59:47,120 --> 01:59:49,480
Speaker 1: you only have so many players with two only two

2315
01:59:49,480 --> 01:59:52,320
Speaker 1: practice squad elevations. Other playoff teams had to play their

2316
01:59:52,320 --> 01:59:56,200
Speaker 1: best players today as well. These aren't easy decisions in hindsight,

2317
01:59:56,240 --> 01:59:59,480
Speaker 1: it's perfect for everyone to design. No, that's not really

2318
01:59:59,560 --> 02:00:01,720
Speaker 1: that doesn't ride with me because you can't say things

2319
02:00:01,760 --> 02:00:04,000
Speaker 1: like every other playoff team was dealing with this and

2320
02:00:04,040 --> 02:00:05,560
Speaker 1: doing it the same way. It's like, no, they weren't.

2321
02:00:05,880 --> 02:00:08,400
Speaker 1: We We we saw all across the league that teams

2322
02:00:08,400 --> 02:00:11,680
Speaker 1: weren't doing that. Giants played with as we mentioned, like

2323
02:00:11,720 --> 02:00:13,880
Speaker 1: the two tight end personnel of the whole game, because

2324
02:00:13,880 --> 02:00:15,640
Speaker 1: they didn't want to play their wide receivers. Right. The

2325
02:00:15,680 --> 02:00:17,520
Speaker 1: one thing is, because I think there's been a little

2326
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:19,640
Speaker 1: bit of a pattern, we we kind of questioned the

2327
02:00:19,760 --> 02:00:22,720
Speaker 1: use of Herbert afterwards, hurt keenan Allen got put back

2328
02:00:22,720 --> 02:00:24,520
Speaker 1: in a little prematurely and got dinged up. And we've

2329
02:00:24,560 --> 02:00:26,800
Speaker 1: seen how difference this all, how different this whole thing

2330
02:00:26,840 --> 02:00:30,040
Speaker 1: is when either Keenan Allen or Mike Williams are not available,

2331
02:00:30,040 --> 02:00:31,680
Speaker 1: and so this is a worst case scenario of Mike

2332
02:00:31,760 --> 02:00:34,280
Speaker 1: Wimmen's where ever not available next week. It's trending in

2333
02:00:34,280 --> 02:00:36,920
Speaker 1: a good direction. But I I just I, you know,

2334
02:00:37,000 --> 02:00:38,280
Speaker 1: I get it. You're the coach. You can do whatever

2335
02:00:38,320 --> 02:00:40,200
Speaker 1: you want. Maybe the players are telling you we want

2336
02:00:40,240 --> 02:00:41,840
Speaker 1: to play. I get all that, but it's like the

2337
02:00:41,960 --> 02:00:44,560
Speaker 1: only thing that matters when they started this game, because

2338
02:00:44,560 --> 02:00:46,000
Speaker 1: they were locked in with with where they were going

2339
02:00:46,080 --> 02:00:48,880
Speaker 1: to go is next week, right I And I was,

2340
02:00:49,280 --> 02:00:53,080
Speaker 1: I was walking through town on Friday, and all of

2341
02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:55,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, I hear a very familiar voice, and it

2342
02:00:55,120 --> 02:00:59,040
Speaker 1: just so happens that Matt money Smith, on his very

2343
02:00:59,040 --> 02:01:02,920
Speaker 1: popular drivetime radio show here in Los Angeles, was doing

2344
02:01:02,960 --> 02:01:06,360
Speaker 1: a live show from this place called Rock and Bruise.

2345
02:01:06,400 --> 02:01:09,720
Speaker 1: And I ducked in there and I chatted with Money

2346
02:01:09,720 --> 02:01:12,040
Speaker 1: and we were talking Chargers, of course, the former voice

2347
02:01:12,040 --> 02:01:13,680
Speaker 1: of God on this show and also the voice of

2348
02:01:13,720 --> 02:01:17,400
Speaker 1: the Chargers now. And he was he was optimistic. You know,

2349
02:01:18,360 --> 02:01:20,720
Speaker 1: he gets extra guap the deeper they go in the playoffs.

2350
02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:23,720
Speaker 1: That's his money for a reason. So he he wants

2351
02:01:23,720 --> 02:01:25,800
Speaker 1: a d playoff run for a lot of reasons. And

2352
02:01:25,840 --> 02:01:28,840
Speaker 1: he was saying, we're healthy, like this team has a chance,

2353
02:01:28,840 --> 02:01:31,320
Speaker 1: they're fun. And then I was talking. I was at

2354
02:01:31,360 --> 02:01:34,800
Speaker 1: a barbershop yesterday and I was talking to George Jags

2355
02:01:34,800 --> 02:01:39,320
Speaker 1: barbershop in Westchester, and he is a huge Chargers fan,

2356
02:01:39,400 --> 02:01:41,280
Speaker 1: and we were having the conversation that they're healthy. It's like,

2357
02:01:41,680 --> 02:01:44,000
Speaker 1: but this is a Star Cross team. Something always seems

2358
02:01:44,000 --> 02:01:46,040
Speaker 1: to happen. And that's all I could think today while

2359
02:01:46,080 --> 02:01:48,800
Speaker 1: we're leaving these players in and Mike Williams is getting carded, like,

2360
02:01:49,160 --> 02:01:52,200
Speaker 1: be smart, Chargers, don't let the football gods come for you.

2361
02:01:52,240 --> 02:01:55,480
Speaker 1: Don't give him extra chances. So ultimately, George the salon

2362
02:01:55,560 --> 02:02:00,880
Speaker 1: man knew more than barber shop the barber. He knew

2363
02:02:00,920 --> 02:02:04,640
Speaker 1: more than Matt money Smith, the played by a salon. No,

2364
02:02:05,480 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 1: I'm in assuming a salon is typically not somewhere for me.

2365
02:02:08,440 --> 02:02:13,960
Speaker 1: But you also saw a broadcaster I enjoy very much

2366
02:02:14,000 --> 02:02:17,080
Speaker 1: in Petros and uh you did I let him know

2367
02:02:17,120 --> 02:02:18,840
Speaker 1: that you're a I said, just let him know him.

2368
02:02:18,840 --> 02:02:21,040
Speaker 1: I really love his style and what he does, and

2369
02:02:21,080 --> 02:02:25,120
Speaker 1: it sounded like his response was, um, incredibly underwhelmed. Well

2370
02:02:25,480 --> 02:02:27,240
Speaker 1: it was. Then it left me with a bad taste

2371
02:02:27,240 --> 02:02:29,120
Speaker 1: in my mouth on that text thread because it was

2372
02:02:29,160 --> 02:02:30,800
Speaker 1: just like you were kind of sticking it to me.

2373
02:02:31,320 --> 02:02:33,680
Speaker 1: I know. That's why I worried when I saw your

2374
02:02:33,720 --> 02:02:36,280
Speaker 1: replies like, oh no, Mark took it a certain way. Well,

2375
02:02:36,360 --> 02:02:38,480
Speaker 1: I know you're a big fan Petros and Money again

2376
02:02:38,520 --> 02:02:42,040
Speaker 1: the Big Drive Time team here on five seventy am

2377
02:02:42,160 --> 02:02:46,160
Speaker 1: Radio here. Um. For some reason, I felt compelled when

2378
02:02:46,160 --> 02:02:48,120
Speaker 1: I met him to almost immediately tell him that you

2379
02:02:48,160 --> 02:02:50,120
Speaker 1: were a huge fan. And I think I caught him

2380
02:02:50,160 --> 02:02:52,520
Speaker 1: off guard because why would this guy that he just

2381
02:02:52,640 --> 02:02:55,600
Speaker 1: met then be like, oh, my friend loves you and

2382
02:02:55,640 --> 02:02:58,040
Speaker 1: he was like, oh cool. So when I wrote, oh

2383
02:02:58,160 --> 02:03:01,280
Speaker 1: cool is what he said, Um, you took it as

2384
02:03:01,360 --> 02:03:05,120
Speaker 1: like him being like oh cool. But over text you

2385
02:03:05,120 --> 02:03:07,520
Speaker 1: cannot tell what the tone is and the tone the

2386
02:03:07,600 --> 02:03:10,040
Speaker 1: verbiage was, you know, clipped. You know my mom says,

2387
02:03:10,240 --> 02:03:12,560
Speaker 1: no good deed goes unpunished. I was just trying to

2388
02:03:12,600 --> 02:03:15,120
Speaker 1: do you a solid, and look who catches fire all

2389
02:03:15,120 --> 02:03:17,760
Speaker 1: to him? I don't, I don't. I don't talk about

2390
02:03:17,800 --> 02:03:19,560
Speaker 1: sinking over this one. I suppose it was a good deed,

2391
02:03:19,680 --> 02:03:22,840
Speaker 1: Like did they have you on the show? Uh? No,

2392
02:03:23,480 --> 02:03:25,080
Speaker 1: you think I'm not going on I'm not talking to

2393
02:03:25,160 --> 02:03:28,520
Speaker 1: a mic, not the thing, and they don't have you

2394
02:03:28,560 --> 02:03:30,880
Speaker 1: on you know that's with Matt money Smith for that's

2395
02:03:31,240 --> 02:03:34,400
Speaker 1: a sports radio. They had a King's like defenceman on there.

2396
02:03:34,440 --> 02:03:37,040
Speaker 1: They're chopping things up. I have no idea what's going

2397
02:03:37,080 --> 02:03:40,560
Speaker 1: on in l a sports Hey Grave digger you you

2398
02:03:40,560 --> 02:03:43,560
Speaker 1: were saying. Sorry, I didn't mean to derail that very

2399
02:03:43,600 --> 02:03:48,360
Speaker 1: interesting conversation. Um, I just wanted to remind everyone. It

2400
02:03:48,360 --> 02:03:51,360
Speaker 1: feels like forever ago that Justin Herbert suffered that ribbon dream.

2401
02:03:51,400 --> 02:03:54,200
Speaker 1: We're all wondering why Brandon Staley left him in the

2402
02:03:54,240 --> 02:03:56,040
Speaker 1: game as long as he did. It seems like he

2403
02:03:56,040 --> 02:04:01,400
Speaker 1: didn't learn from whatever happened earlier in this season. It's

2404
02:04:01,480 --> 02:04:03,320
Speaker 1: very Yeah, it's also weird because they're one of the

2405
02:04:03,360 --> 02:04:05,520
Speaker 1: teams that were at the forefront of like never play

2406
02:04:05,640 --> 02:04:10,240
Speaker 1: any players in the preseason. So I'm almost less concerned

2407
02:04:10,280 --> 02:04:14,040
Speaker 1: about uh that he played everyone. That was really annoying.

2408
02:04:14,200 --> 02:04:18,200
Speaker 1: And and if Mike Williams is, you know, compromise next week,

2409
02:04:18,200 --> 02:04:20,520
Speaker 1: then that would be the biggest problem. But also like

2410
02:04:20,600 --> 02:04:22,600
Speaker 1: he wanted to, like in theory, I think keep the

2411
02:04:22,600 --> 02:04:25,760
Speaker 1: winning vibes going. That was the idea, and they lost

2412
02:04:25,800 --> 02:04:27,560
Speaker 1: the game to the Broncos, and it wasn't the backups

2413
02:04:27,560 --> 02:04:29,320
Speaker 1: that lost, it was the starters that lost. Fans of

2414
02:04:29,680 --> 02:04:32,720
Speaker 1: somewhat recent football history will remember the ultimate and nuts

2415
02:04:32,720 --> 02:04:34,640
Speaker 1: bringing up again because and I'm gonna talk about forty

2416
02:04:34,640 --> 02:04:37,120
Speaker 1: two Greg, and I'm not doing it on purpose, but

2417
02:04:37,240 --> 02:04:40,360
Speaker 1: the ultimate flex in this mode was when Tom Coughlin

2418
02:04:40,400 --> 02:04:43,760
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen or eighteen, when the Patriots were going

2419
02:04:43,800 --> 02:04:46,840
Speaker 1: for the perfect season on New Year's Eve, um the

2420
02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:50,360
Speaker 1: Giants were already locked into a wild card spot. Coughlin said,

2421
02:04:50,400 --> 02:04:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm playing everybody and we're trying to knock off the

2422
02:04:53,240 --> 02:04:56,440
Speaker 1: undefeated Patriots in a very Tom Coughlin type move, and

2423
02:04:56,480 --> 02:04:59,240
Speaker 1: they played this this gorgeous back and forth shootout that

2424
02:04:59,240 --> 02:05:01,720
Speaker 1: the Patriots held down for the win. But it did

2425
02:05:01,960 --> 02:05:04,240
Speaker 1: really did, I think, and they talk about it now,

2426
02:05:04,280 --> 02:05:06,280
Speaker 1: and I think it was true. It It kind of

2427
02:05:06,320 --> 02:05:09,200
Speaker 1: really elevated the Giants, not just through the NFC playoffs,

2428
02:05:09,240 --> 02:05:11,560
Speaker 1: but when they saw the Pats again and the Super Bowl,

2429
02:05:11,840 --> 02:05:14,240
Speaker 1: they felt confident we could beat them. They're not unbeatable,

2430
02:05:14,560 --> 02:05:16,880
Speaker 1: but usually you just gotta use common sense and be

2431
02:05:16,920 --> 02:05:18,960
Speaker 1: smarter about it. I guess we're talking about it maybe

2432
02:05:18,960 --> 02:05:21,280
Speaker 1: a little too much because something that bad happened, but

2433
02:05:21,440 --> 02:05:24,520
Speaker 1: it was interesting Before Kauughland, Vince Lombardi did the same

2434
02:05:24,560 --> 02:05:27,760
Speaker 1: thing in a very critical situation at the end of

2435
02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:29,680
Speaker 1: the season and staid it was one of his favorite

2436
02:05:30,360 --> 02:05:33,280
Speaker 1: days of coaching, one of his greatest coaching experiences to

2437
02:05:33,320 --> 02:05:35,080
Speaker 1: have as guys go out there when it didn't matter

2438
02:05:35,320 --> 02:05:37,040
Speaker 1: and to go do it anyways, they lost the game,

2439
02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:39,760
Speaker 1: but it's like I Belicheck did it on the regular

2440
02:05:39,960 --> 02:05:43,680
Speaker 1: I mean, people will lose their minds results, the results

2441
02:05:43,720 --> 02:05:47,560
Speaker 1: not good. West Welker blew out his knee meaningless week eighteen,

2442
02:05:47,640 --> 02:05:51,200
Speaker 1: that that was unfortunate. We should mention quickly to Sean

2443
02:05:51,240 --> 02:05:56,840
Speaker 1: Payton confirmed he spoke to Broncos ownership about the head

2444
02:05:56,840 --> 02:06:01,240
Speaker 1: coaching vacancy. He can't officially interview of the job for

2445
02:06:02,040 --> 02:06:05,240
Speaker 1: another week and a half because the league rules because

2446
02:06:05,240 --> 02:06:07,520
Speaker 1: he's still under contract with the Saints. You have to

2447
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:09,800
Speaker 1: wait until after the wild card round. What are they

2448
02:06:09,800 --> 02:06:11,440
Speaker 1: going to trade? I don't even have any first round

2449
02:06:11,440 --> 02:06:13,920
Speaker 1: picks here, Well, they have future first round picks, and

2450
02:06:14,000 --> 02:06:18,600
Speaker 1: rap Sheet reported that conversations happened about the trade and

2451
02:06:18,640 --> 02:06:22,640
Speaker 1: that that part of the situation may already be settled

2452
02:06:22,760 --> 02:06:25,840
Speaker 1: the trade part, so we'll see if gets a better off.

2453
02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:29,080
Speaker 1: But we have Peyton, who's been biding his time with

2454
02:06:29,160 --> 02:06:33,920
Speaker 1: Fox this year obviously talking about the conversation with the Broncos.

2455
02:06:34,440 --> 02:06:37,760
Speaker 1: Any team that would want to inquire or speak with

2456
02:06:37,800 --> 02:06:39,800
Speaker 1: me can do so. They just need permission from the

2457
02:06:39,800 --> 02:06:43,000
Speaker 1: Saints UM and then down the road, if that's something

2458
02:06:43,040 --> 02:06:47,640
Speaker 1: that materializes into anything else, then there would be compensation required,

2459
02:06:47,720 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 1: much like a player trade. Denver's the first team and

2460
02:06:50,760 --> 02:06:54,000
Speaker 1: I was able to have a conversation with their owner

2461
02:06:54,600 --> 02:06:56,960
Speaker 1: and uh, that's kind of the protocol, So would go

2462
02:06:57,040 --> 02:07:01,200
Speaker 1: team to the Saints. Uh, and then the interview process

2463
02:07:01,240 --> 02:07:04,600
Speaker 1: can't officially begin until the seventeenth of this month. So

2464
02:07:05,040 --> 02:07:08,480
Speaker 1: that's really works at I mean one word leverage, right,

2465
02:07:08,600 --> 02:07:11,440
Speaker 1: and this is where we think Sean Payton wants to go. Well,

2466
02:07:11,600 --> 02:07:14,120
Speaker 1: will we have other options? We'll find out. It actually

2467
02:07:14,120 --> 02:07:17,360
Speaker 1: occurred to me during this game, like is Staley worried

2468
02:07:17,400 --> 02:07:20,160
Speaker 1: about Sean Payton? So he's still trying to win games

2469
02:07:20,200 --> 02:07:22,560
Speaker 1: because Sean Payton's made it awfully clear he wants that

2470
02:07:22,840 --> 02:07:26,400
Speaker 1: Chargers job the more. The most interesting thing Sean Payton

2471
02:07:26,400 --> 02:07:28,720
Speaker 1: said when he spoke to our Peter Schraeger there on

2472
02:07:28,800 --> 02:07:32,000
Speaker 1: Fox was quarterback would not be the most important thing

2473
02:07:32,080 --> 02:07:35,480
Speaker 1: to him. Ownership and the GM and the structure. That's

2474
02:07:35,480 --> 02:07:37,760
Speaker 1: what matters to me. When I arrived in New Orleans,

2475
02:07:37,920 --> 02:07:40,760
Speaker 1: we didn't have a quarterback. He basically saying, I can

2476
02:07:40,800 --> 02:07:43,800
Speaker 1: make the quarterback thing work. I'm worried about the owner

2477
02:07:44,160 --> 02:07:46,800
Speaker 1: and I and you know what will always have They

2478
02:07:46,800 --> 02:07:49,560
Speaker 1: have money and what does Walmart have? All the money?

2479
02:07:49,880 --> 02:07:52,720
Speaker 1: The money and as bad as like. We've talked about

2480
02:07:52,760 --> 02:07:54,920
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson's side of this and why it would

2481
02:07:54,920 --> 02:07:57,440
Speaker 1: make it messy for someone going there. But I think

2482
02:07:57,480 --> 02:07:59,440
Speaker 1: you could maybe even get out of that contract in

2483
02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:03,040
Speaker 1: another year if it ends up being terrible. He's if

2484
02:08:03,120 --> 02:08:05,760
Speaker 1: you're going to Denver as a head coach, you need

2485
02:08:05,880 --> 02:08:08,280
Speaker 1: you've got to be a high, high quality guy with

2486
02:08:08,320 --> 02:08:11,760
Speaker 1: a resume to have some rope uh to survive a

2487
02:08:11,800 --> 02:08:14,760
Speaker 1: potential bad Russell Wilson here too, it makes a little

2488
02:08:14,760 --> 02:08:18,000
Speaker 1: more sense. That's a great city, great fan base, great history,

2489
02:08:18,240 --> 02:08:20,000
Speaker 1: and new ownership. We don't know about them, but they've

2490
02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:21,839
Speaker 1: got a ton of money they'll spend to make the Broncos.

2491
02:08:21,920 --> 02:08:23,800
Speaker 1: Outside of the Russell Wilson contract which you're right. I

2492
02:08:23,840 --> 02:08:25,240
Speaker 1: think at some point you make a decision. If it's

2493
02:08:25,240 --> 02:08:27,480
Speaker 1: not working, you move on. Everything else about the Denver

2494
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:29,600
Speaker 1: Broncos I think would appeal to Sean Payton, right, and

2495
02:08:29,640 --> 02:08:31,640
Speaker 1: he wants to coach, and I'm not sure other than

2496
02:08:31,760 --> 02:08:35,760
Speaker 1: possibly the Rams where he could have an opportunity. So

2497
02:08:36,360 --> 02:08:38,680
Speaker 1: you know, let's see what happens there. All right, let's

2498
02:08:38,680 --> 02:08:42,120
Speaker 1: head to uh, the most amazing game that's ever been

2499
02:08:42,120 --> 02:08:47,120
Speaker 1: played to Lucas Oil Stadium, the home of the Central

2500
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:52,960
Speaker 1: Zone Invitational later this month. Plug, I'm just gonna be

2501
02:08:55,320 --> 02:08:57,000
Speaker 1: gott to get rid of it. Throws it to the

2502
02:08:57,120 --> 02:09:04,520
Speaker 1: end zone end, caught it. Jordan nakids, My goodness with

2503
02:09:04,680 --> 02:09:09,480
Speaker 1: the catch, my guy, Jordan nakeds that they're gonna go

2504
02:09:09,600 --> 02:09:13,240
Speaker 1: for two. Here we go, Texans going for the lead.

2505
02:09:13,800 --> 02:09:20,000
Speaker 1: Davis looking calling to the ends O. Jordan nakeds, it's

2506
02:09:20,040 --> 02:09:23,360
Speaker 1: not pig again, wide open as the Texans Grandma one

2507
02:09:23,400 --> 02:09:30,240
Speaker 1: point lead. But fifty seconds ago, what that was one

2508
02:09:30,280 --> 02:09:33,240
Speaker 1: of the dumbest things. It was so good or every

2509
02:09:33,280 --> 02:09:36,160
Speaker 1: Cults game up the last month. No, not even that,

2510
02:09:36,400 --> 02:09:38,720
Speaker 1: I mean, it's why did the Texans win this game?

2511
02:09:39,840 --> 02:09:42,360
Speaker 1: Davis Mills doing that at the Mark Vanderby with the

2512
02:09:42,440 --> 02:09:46,800
Speaker 1: call k I l T. Yeah they got. They convert

2513
02:09:46,840 --> 02:09:50,560
Speaker 1: a fourth and twenty for a touchdown, go for two

2514
02:09:51,360 --> 02:09:55,920
Speaker 1: naked to beat the Colts, and Zach Kieber was right.

2515
02:09:55,960 --> 02:09:58,160
Speaker 1: They had one win in them under Jeff Saturday, by

2516
02:09:58,160 --> 02:10:03,520
Speaker 1: the way, that is thirty one and because the Texans

2517
02:10:03,680 --> 02:10:06,880
Speaker 1: have this incredible comeback win, and I guess you know,

2518
02:10:06,920 --> 02:10:09,880
Speaker 1: the Colts made it happen by playing miserable, bone headed

2519
02:10:09,920 --> 02:10:11,920
Speaker 1: defense in the final plays of the game. But like

2520
02:10:12,280 --> 02:10:15,120
Speaker 1: they don't pick number one anymore. They dropped to the

2521
02:10:15,200 --> 02:10:18,040
Speaker 1: number two pick in the Chicago Bears get the number

2522
02:10:18,040 --> 02:10:20,320
Speaker 1: one pick, and it could be one of the more

2523
02:10:20,320 --> 02:10:22,880
Speaker 1: crushing developments for the Texans in many years. When you

2524
02:10:22,880 --> 02:10:25,520
Speaker 1: look back at it, it was delicious. I don't know why.

2525
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:27,920
Speaker 1: I don't think they deserve any good luck the way

2526
02:10:27,960 --> 02:10:30,680
Speaker 1: they've handled everything, especially if they don't keep loving Smith.

2527
02:10:31,040 --> 02:10:32,720
Speaker 1: We'll hear from love you in a second. But I

2528
02:10:32,800 --> 02:10:35,520
Speaker 1: just love these sort of insane Week eighteen moments. And

2529
02:10:35,600 --> 02:10:39,720
Speaker 1: Davis Mills he had a fourth and twelve on the

2530
02:10:39,760 --> 02:10:43,080
Speaker 1: move to Brandon Cooks. Earlier in that drive he was

2531
02:10:43,280 --> 02:10:47,520
Speaker 1: fourth and twenty under extreme pressure. This is Davis Mills.

2532
02:10:47,560 --> 02:10:50,600
Speaker 1: This is not Patrick Mahomes. He's rolling to his left

2533
02:10:50,640 --> 02:10:53,640
Speaker 1: and he has two defensive linemen right on top of him,

2534
02:10:53,680 --> 02:10:56,440
Speaker 1: and then he throws across his body and the Colts

2535
02:10:56,480 --> 02:10:59,280
Speaker 1: defender has the game. All he has to do is

2536
02:10:59,360 --> 02:11:03,760
Speaker 1: knock it down. Instead, he runs forward just then jumps up.

2537
02:11:03,800 --> 02:11:07,080
Speaker 1: It goes right through his arms into the winning hands.

2538
02:11:08,040 --> 02:11:09,760
Speaker 1: It was one of the moments of the season. It

2539
02:11:09,840 --> 02:11:12,560
Speaker 1: was the only moment of the season that I yelled

2540
02:11:12,600 --> 02:11:16,840
Speaker 1: out in the news room and screamed, probably annoying Mark,

2541
02:11:18,520 --> 02:11:25,680
Speaker 1: annoy me. But it's it's it's amazing moments of athleticism.

2542
02:11:25,760 --> 02:11:28,600
Speaker 1: But like there are a lot of Texans fans that

2543
02:11:28,600 --> 02:11:32,120
Speaker 1: have their head on the Texans to win. I wanted

2544
02:11:32,160 --> 02:11:35,200
Speaker 1: that like, that's great. Those are trifleing items. If there's

2545
02:11:35,240 --> 02:11:37,280
Speaker 1: like Andrew Luck and no other quarterback in the traft,

2546
02:11:37,280 --> 02:11:38,880
Speaker 1: that it's meant to be a better draft. Like the

2547
02:11:39,000 --> 02:11:43,760
Speaker 1: Texans because of Davis Mills late game heroics, don't have

2548
02:11:43,760 --> 02:11:48,360
Speaker 1: the chance to pick the quarterback they want. This means

2549
02:11:47,800 --> 02:11:51,000
Speaker 1: meaning it could reverberate for years for this organization. And

2550
02:11:51,080 --> 02:11:52,800
Speaker 1: I don't know enough I got you know, we gotta

2551
02:11:52,800 --> 02:11:59,200
Speaker 1: talk to her. But now that this whole absurd Texans

2552
02:11:59,280 --> 02:12:03,160
Speaker 1: journey for two years should have con and to to

2553
02:12:03,320 --> 02:12:06,240
Speaker 1: Greg's point, and especially if you follow a team that

2554
02:12:06,280 --> 02:12:09,480
Speaker 1: can't get a quarterback for fifty years, they had Deshaun Watson,

2555
02:12:09,520 --> 02:12:12,400
Speaker 1: a generational talent that ended the way it ended to

2556
02:12:12,560 --> 02:12:15,480
Speaker 1: then fall into a potential another number one overall pick

2557
02:12:15,560 --> 02:12:17,520
Speaker 1: star that would have kind of sneaky annoyed me and

2558
02:12:17,560 --> 02:12:19,960
Speaker 1: other teams that are in my position. So maybe I

2559
02:12:19,960 --> 02:12:22,680
Speaker 1: don't feel too terribly and you also like, I'm like,

2560
02:12:22,960 --> 02:12:25,520
Speaker 1: just as a football fan, I'm thinking as a Texans fan,

2561
02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:29,440
Speaker 1: That's why I'm so i'mmed thinking about it. But the

2562
02:12:29,480 --> 02:12:32,760
Speaker 1: Texans and their players and their coaching staff, they know

2563
02:12:32,920 --> 02:12:35,720
Speaker 1: whatever is the next era of Texans football probably doesn't

2564
02:12:35,760 --> 02:12:38,400
Speaker 1: involve them. Like, so that's why the game played out

2565
02:12:38,400 --> 02:12:40,600
Speaker 1: the way it did. I mean, it makes me think

2566
02:12:40,640 --> 02:12:44,440
Speaker 1: about like the old movie Major League with Tom Barrenger

2567
02:12:44,480 --> 02:12:47,440
Speaker 1: and Corbyn Burnson and Charlie Sheen. It's like, was there

2568
02:12:47,600 --> 02:12:49,880
Speaker 1: some type of front office figure that was like, no,

2569
02:12:50,480 --> 02:12:52,840
Speaker 1: like racing down to the field to try to stop this,

2570
02:12:53,160 --> 02:12:55,640
Speaker 1: But of course nobody did. And I don't believe there's

2571
02:12:55,680 --> 02:12:59,000
Speaker 1: no there's no like I don't think anyone's saying like,

2572
02:12:59,000 --> 02:13:00,920
Speaker 1: oh love you Smith in the or should have tried

2573
02:13:00,960 --> 02:13:02,920
Speaker 1: to lose this. But I think that is where you create,

2574
02:13:03,280 --> 02:13:07,160
Speaker 1: just situationally, a chasm between your front office who had

2575
02:13:07,200 --> 02:13:09,080
Speaker 1: plans to do. The one thing that could happen is

2576
02:13:09,120 --> 02:13:11,520
Speaker 1: if Chicago holds on to that, if they want to

2577
02:13:11,560 --> 02:13:13,520
Speaker 1: just they fall in love with someone, then they're not

2578
02:13:13,560 --> 02:13:15,720
Speaker 1: taking a quarterback and maybe you're right back where you started.

2579
02:13:15,720 --> 02:13:17,760
Speaker 1: But they can also trade that. The Texans also have

2580
02:13:17,840 --> 02:13:20,320
Speaker 1: Cleveland's first round pick, so they have the ammunition. But

2581
02:13:20,360 --> 02:13:23,080
Speaker 1: it's just like, come on, Smith has to say about

2582
02:13:23,080 --> 02:13:25,160
Speaker 1: the draft. I I would because I don't know how

2583
02:13:25,240 --> 02:13:26,840
Speaker 1: often we'll get to hear from it again depending on

2584
02:13:26,840 --> 02:13:29,520
Speaker 1: what they do. Okay, this is the option that I had.

2585
02:13:29,840 --> 02:13:33,520
Speaker 1: So you're saying, hey, guys, playing this last game, you

2586
02:13:33,560 --> 02:13:35,600
Speaker 1: know all that you've been working for all your live

2587
02:13:35,880 --> 02:13:39,320
Speaker 1: you play to win, forget that lose the game on purpose.

2588
02:13:40,400 --> 02:13:42,440
Speaker 1: I think that would be a hard one to get by.

2589
02:13:42,640 --> 02:13:45,400
Speaker 1: They won't expect me to say that I didn't what

2590
02:13:45,520 --> 02:13:48,560
Speaker 1: we were each week. Our game plan has been to

2591
02:13:48,640 --> 02:13:51,160
Speaker 1: win the game. It's kind of simple as that, and

2592
02:13:51,200 --> 02:13:53,680
Speaker 1: that's what we followed through on the day. Um, Ultimately,

2593
02:13:53,680 --> 02:13:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I'm happy for Smith if this is

2594
02:13:55,680 --> 02:13:58,440
Speaker 1: how he goes out. He doesn't let ownership. We have

2595
02:13:58,480 --> 02:14:01,120
Speaker 1: one other thing from Levy, can't hear it? Do I

2596
02:14:01,200 --> 02:14:03,280
Speaker 1: expect to be back? Yeah? I expect to be back.

2597
02:14:05,160 --> 02:14:08,440
Speaker 1: You know, absolutely, It's like a dare. Greg Well, he

2598
02:14:08,480 --> 02:14:12,160
Speaker 1: said he's been talking to ownership. Maybe that was a dare.

2599
02:14:12,240 --> 02:14:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's based on that. The way

2600
02:14:14,440 --> 02:14:19,440
Speaker 1: that Ian rapport our National Insider. Remember when they changed

2601
02:14:19,480 --> 02:14:22,040
Speaker 1: that to his title? Have they change it again? And

2602
02:14:22,160 --> 02:14:26,920
Speaker 1: I think that's it? National Network Inside. Couldn't you make

2603
02:14:26,960 --> 02:14:29,880
Speaker 1: him internet international disppoint? It's an international sports there's not

2604
02:14:29,920 --> 02:14:33,879
Speaker 1: He's not dueling against that insider from Spain. His titles

2605
02:14:33,960 --> 02:14:37,200
Speaker 1: NFL Network Insider, he reported. You know they they that

2606
02:14:37,360 --> 02:14:41,120
Speaker 1: loveest future was very much in doubt. Over on Fox,

2607
02:14:41,200 --> 02:14:44,440
Speaker 1: Jake Lazer thought Nick Cassario the GM's future might be

2608
02:14:44,480 --> 02:14:46,600
Speaker 1: in doubt. So we'll just see where we'll We'll see

2609
02:14:46,720 --> 02:14:52,720
Speaker 1: what's going to developing news, developing news according to them

2610
02:14:52,760 --> 02:15:00,320
Speaker 1: being told rap sheets, Twitter, Bio, National Insider for NFL

2611
02:15:00,360 --> 02:15:02,960
Speaker 1: Network and NFL dot Com. I think that's new. I

2612
02:15:03,000 --> 02:15:04,960
Speaker 1: think that was tweaked someone recently I'm going to do

2613
02:15:05,000 --> 02:15:08,640
Speaker 1: my digging as Uh, isn't that what I said? Yeah?

2614
02:15:08,680 --> 02:15:10,560
Speaker 1: You were right? Yeah, okay, I'm I want to do

2615
02:15:10,600 --> 02:15:12,560
Speaker 1: some digging and find out when that changed. I would

2616
02:15:12,600 --> 02:15:14,480
Speaker 1: just say you could go. If you wanted to pull

2617
02:15:14,600 --> 02:15:17,400
Speaker 1: full power move, you go Earth insider. You're not dueling

2618
02:15:17,440 --> 02:15:23,960
Speaker 1: against um NFL insiders in Africa. I'll be Yeah, I'll

2619
02:15:23,960 --> 02:15:26,000
Speaker 1: be digging at the story. Just leave it at that.

2620
02:15:26,880 --> 02:15:30,160
Speaker 1: Was there something else? Yeah? I just like that. You know,

2621
02:15:30,360 --> 02:15:32,600
Speaker 1: if they if they're sending them out, they don't deserve

2622
02:15:32,640 --> 02:15:36,400
Speaker 1: to win this game. They don't deserve it. This this franchise.

2623
02:15:36,680 --> 02:15:39,880
Speaker 1: I I don't remember they were losing Deshaun Watson before

2624
02:15:39,880 --> 02:15:44,040
Speaker 1: anything happened either, he wanted out of this franchise. And also,

2625
02:15:44,160 --> 02:15:47,440
Speaker 1: keeping mind very excited about this, the Colts don't want

2626
02:15:47,480 --> 02:15:51,320
Speaker 1: their division rival to get the number one pick either. No.

2627
02:15:51,400 --> 02:15:53,240
Speaker 1: I think it was a savvy move by It was

2628
02:15:53,240 --> 02:15:54,880
Speaker 1: a good job by the call. It's graver though you

2629
02:15:55,000 --> 02:15:58,120
Speaker 1: still your prediction that uh, the Colts would finish in

2630
02:15:58,200 --> 02:16:01,560
Speaker 1: last place. That the true. But there's an argument to

2631
02:16:01,600 --> 02:16:04,400
Speaker 1: be made that Houston was a better team than Indie

2632
02:16:04,400 --> 02:16:06,840
Speaker 1: this year. They went one oh and one against them.

2633
02:16:06,960 --> 02:16:10,520
Speaker 1: I think finished team in this division. I mean, what

2634
02:16:10,560 --> 02:16:13,040
Speaker 1: a disastrous end to this. I think the I believe

2635
02:16:13,080 --> 02:16:17,840
Speaker 1: the Texans went undefeated in their Division one three two

2636
02:16:17,880 --> 02:16:21,440
Speaker 1: and one, though in the division ridiculous. Smith started the

2637
02:16:21,440 --> 02:16:25,200
Speaker 1: seasoning for a high and annoying everyone, and he ended

2638
02:16:25,200 --> 02:16:28,440
Speaker 1: the season going for the win with the two point conversion.

2639
02:16:28,440 --> 02:16:34,519
Speaker 1: Who says there can't be personal grand annoying everyone, No, Joe,

2640
02:16:35,160 --> 02:16:40,320
Speaker 1: just talking about it. Now it's official. The Texans once

2641
02:16:40,360 --> 02:16:42,480
Speaker 1: again on the in the market for a new head coach.

2642
02:16:43,000 --> 02:16:46,800
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport and Mike Gara Folo together reporting of the

2643
02:16:46,840 --> 02:16:51,680
Speaker 1: Texans have fired head coach Lovey Smith. Another one and

2644
02:16:51,760 --> 02:16:55,520
Speaker 1: done in Houston. So David Culley, given no chance in

2645
02:16:56,520 --> 02:16:59,640
Speaker 1: to build that program, fired, even though he kind of

2646
02:16:59,640 --> 02:17:02,080
Speaker 1: out for formed of the team out perform what they expected.

2647
02:17:02,120 --> 02:17:06,000
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith comes in, given no chance to build the operation,

2648
02:17:07,160 --> 02:17:08,600
Speaker 1: sticks it to the team out on the way out

2649
02:17:08,640 --> 02:17:10,680
Speaker 1: the door in week eighteen and then has let go.

2650
02:17:11,360 --> 02:17:14,960
Speaker 1: So once again, um mark, the Texans will be on

2651
02:17:15,000 --> 02:17:17,720
Speaker 1: the lookout for a coach. They do have some positives now,

2652
02:17:17,920 --> 02:17:19,800
Speaker 1: of course in terms of what the job they have

2653
02:17:20,040 --> 02:17:22,920
Speaker 1: they already have. I think uh uh an extra number one.

2654
02:17:23,000 --> 02:17:25,720
Speaker 1: Is that correct? Cleveland's for years and even though they

2655
02:17:25,879 --> 02:17:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, blew the number one overall pick, they picked

2656
02:17:28,640 --> 02:17:31,200
Speaker 1: number two in this draft with a lot of cap space,

2657
02:17:31,840 --> 02:17:34,039
Speaker 1: but also a lot of dysfunction around that organization in

2658
02:17:34,080 --> 02:17:35,800
Speaker 1: recent years. Yeah, I think it's like you go. It

2659
02:17:35,840 --> 02:17:40,800
Speaker 1: reminds me of reading like the various biographies on Bill

2660
02:17:40,840 --> 02:17:43,840
Speaker 1: Belichick where he talks about when he left the whole

2661
02:17:43,840 --> 02:17:46,879
Speaker 1: Brown situation and was going to go to New England's like,

2662
02:17:46,920 --> 02:17:49,440
Speaker 1: just always think about ownership when you take a job.

2663
02:17:49,480 --> 02:17:52,320
Speaker 1: It's so important because if that shifts, you're probably gonna

2664
02:17:52,320 --> 02:17:55,120
Speaker 1: lose it. But ownership creates culture and everything else. And like,

2665
02:17:55,600 --> 02:17:57,440
Speaker 1: you do have something to offer that as the Texans,

2666
02:17:57,480 --> 02:17:59,680
Speaker 1: they're they they're loaded with draft picks. There's a couple

2667
02:17:59,720 --> 02:18:01,879
Speaker 1: of play as on that roster that I think because

2668
02:18:01,879 --> 02:18:05,199
Speaker 1: of the Texans have been overlooked young guys and there's

2669
02:18:05,200 --> 02:18:07,440
Speaker 1: something to build off. If I think Lovey Smith showed

2670
02:18:07,440 --> 02:18:09,920
Speaker 1: down the stretch here coaching them that they were playing

2671
02:18:09,959 --> 02:18:12,000
Speaker 1: teams tighter. They weren't just the joke. They were all

2672
02:18:12,040 --> 02:18:14,720
Speaker 1: of last season and for the beginning of this and

2673
02:18:14,760 --> 02:18:16,680
Speaker 1: in the end it didn't matter. You just get canned,

2674
02:18:16,680 --> 02:18:18,600
Speaker 1: and it's like, what is the direction? Why did you

2675
02:18:18,680 --> 02:18:21,400
Speaker 1: hire Lovey Smith? I get that it wasn't the most

2676
02:18:21,440 --> 02:18:24,400
Speaker 1: inspiring higher, but like, did you and your in the

2677
02:18:24,400 --> 02:18:27,200
Speaker 1: back of your mind, if you're the g M, nikos sario,

2678
02:18:27,280 --> 02:18:29,280
Speaker 1: if you're the owner Kalla McNair, think you know what,

2679
02:18:29,360 --> 02:18:32,400
Speaker 1: We're probably just gonna get through this season with Davis

2680
02:18:32,400 --> 02:18:35,480
Speaker 1: Mills or whoever set ourselves up post to Shaun Watson

2681
02:18:35,720 --> 02:18:37,800
Speaker 1: to get these draft picks after we trade them and

2682
02:18:37,800 --> 02:18:39,400
Speaker 1: then get the coach we really want. It just a

2683
02:18:39,440 --> 02:18:42,560
Speaker 1: sort of dirty business to me, right. I can't remember

2684
02:18:42,840 --> 02:18:46,960
Speaker 1: NFL head coach ever being hired where it felt like

2685
02:18:47,000 --> 02:18:49,960
Speaker 1: it was a short term higher the minute they made it,

2686
02:18:50,200 --> 02:18:54,360
Speaker 1: and that was that. The coaching search itself was a mess.

2687
02:18:54,440 --> 02:19:00,320
Speaker 1: Easterb was involved, Josh McCown was involved. The whole Ryan

2688
02:19:00,400 --> 02:19:04,400
Speaker 1: flores Um suing the NFL felt like it was kind

2689
02:19:04,400 --> 02:19:08,080
Speaker 1: of involved and maybe pushed the mc near's. I I

2690
02:19:08,120 --> 02:19:12,440
Speaker 1: just think it's embarrassing for Nick Cassario, whether he wants

2691
02:19:12,440 --> 02:19:16,600
Speaker 1: to put it on ownership or not, that he hired

2692
02:19:16,720 --> 02:19:19,760
Speaker 1: Cully as the first thing he did as GM. He

2693
02:19:19,840 --> 02:19:22,400
Speaker 1: made it one year, then he got to hire Levee Smith.

2694
02:19:22,640 --> 02:19:26,920
Speaker 1: He made it one year. Most gms never get to

2695
02:19:26,959 --> 02:19:29,880
Speaker 1: their third head coach if you hire two head coaches

2696
02:19:30,440 --> 02:19:32,720
Speaker 1: and that's over. I'm thinking of like Thomas Dimitroff when

2697
02:19:32,720 --> 02:19:36,160
Speaker 1: he hired Mike Smith and Dan Quinn that lasted, you know,

2698
02:19:36,320 --> 02:19:39,480
Speaker 1: ten fifteen years, but he's not getting to his third

2699
02:19:39,520 --> 02:19:43,879
Speaker 1: head coach. Cassario would be the first GM in history

2700
02:19:43,920 --> 02:19:45,879
Speaker 1: to ever get to hire three head coaches in one year.

2701
02:19:45,920 --> 02:19:47,920
Speaker 1: And yes, you can say, well, the Watson thing happened.

2702
02:19:47,959 --> 02:19:51,160
Speaker 1: They didn't cover themselves in glory there either. Uh, And

2703
02:19:51,280 --> 02:19:53,360
Speaker 1: I don't know where to put the blame. I put

2704
02:19:53,400 --> 02:19:56,480
Speaker 1: it on the organization. But it's just like embarrassing. And

2705
02:19:56,520 --> 02:19:58,280
Speaker 1: I already see the fans being like, well, they shouldn't

2706
02:19:58,280 --> 02:20:00,200
Speaker 1: have hired Lovy and he's not the guy anyways. It's

2707
02:20:00,240 --> 02:20:02,120
Speaker 1: like this was always the plan. It's like that's what

2708
02:20:02,560 --> 02:20:06,840
Speaker 1: team like fans of bad teams say, justified just like yeah,

2709
02:20:06,959 --> 02:20:09,039
Speaker 1: I mean, and the reason was one of the reasons

2710
02:20:09,080 --> 02:20:11,800
Speaker 1: why his eyebrow raising is. Yes, Levy Smith, who they

2711
02:20:11,800 --> 02:20:15,600
Speaker 1: elevated to take the job, um sixty four years old,

2712
02:20:15,640 --> 02:20:18,240
Speaker 1: he came up. He did you know, he had a

2713
02:20:18,280 --> 02:20:21,480
Speaker 1: bad run with Illinois's previous head coaching experience in college,

2714
02:20:21,680 --> 02:20:24,119
Speaker 1: and it didn't seem like for a team that's young

2715
02:20:24,280 --> 02:20:26,200
Speaker 1: and trying to figure things out that you would hire

2716
02:20:26,200 --> 02:20:29,560
Speaker 1: an older, veteran coach, and in in a lot of ways,

2717
02:20:29,600 --> 02:20:31,440
Speaker 1: it's yeah, that didn't make sense because none of this

2718
02:20:31,480 --> 02:20:34,200
Speaker 1: really makes sense. There is no real roadmap right now

2719
02:20:34,240 --> 02:20:37,039
Speaker 1: for the Texans, and I would be very wary if

2720
02:20:37,080 --> 02:20:39,120
Speaker 1: I am h And they're only thirty two chairs, so

2721
02:20:39,120 --> 02:20:41,240
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be a lot of interesting taking one

2722
02:20:41,280 --> 02:20:43,720
Speaker 1: of them. But I'd be very wary if I was

2723
02:20:43,760 --> 02:20:46,160
Speaker 1: a head coach going into that situation right now. I

2724
02:20:46,200 --> 02:20:48,080
Speaker 1: don't care about the cap space and the draft picks.

2725
02:20:48,320 --> 02:20:50,960
Speaker 1: It's like, is that a functional operation? And do I

2726
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Speaker 1: want to be a part of well. They interviewed Gannon

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Gainn. He goes defensive cordnre twice last year and

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Speaker 1: supposedly he was a strong candidate and there's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of regulation that he might be the guy. Ian's

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Speaker 1: already reporting that Gannon and defensive coordinator Demigo Ryan's who

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Speaker 1: used to play for the Texans, and Josh McCown, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the same account. I think now that Easterby Yeah, because

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02:21:14,680 --> 02:21:18,480
Speaker 1: he was. That was the whole easterby sources, and and

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Speaker 1: he had McNair's ear. I think that was an easter

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Speaker 1: be I mean, we can't look, you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: remember a time when they didn't want us to talk

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02:21:24,720 --> 02:21:26,200
Speaker 1: Easter be a little bit here and there. But let's

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02:21:26,800 --> 02:21:30,199
Speaker 1: let's be real that like, by removing that whole situation

2739
02:21:30,280 --> 02:21:32,879
Speaker 1: from what we know, like, you can attract a different

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02:21:32,920 --> 02:21:35,879
Speaker 1: type of candidate potentially perhaps. And I do love that

2741
02:21:35,959 --> 02:21:38,120
Speaker 1: Lovey got that win on the way out. I love that.

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Speaker 1: I also love that he has three years remaining on

2743
02:21:40,440 --> 02:21:43,879
Speaker 1: his deal guaranteed the money and dollar. So there you go.

2744
02:21:44,040 --> 02:21:46,400
Speaker 1: You don't have to you don't have to go pound

2745
02:21:46,440 --> 02:21:48,400
Speaker 1: the pavement tomorrow for work. You're gonna get paid well

2746
02:21:48,440 --> 02:21:54,480
Speaker 1: for the next you know, thousand days. He'll be fine.

2747
02:21:55,280 --> 02:21:58,400
Speaker 1: But he rightfully, he's a prideful person though, so this

2748
02:21:58,440 --> 02:22:00,360
Speaker 1: is you know, but he it's not who's gonna walk

2749
02:22:00,360 --> 02:22:03,440
Speaker 1: around viewing it as his fault organised bad team behavior.

2750
02:22:03,600 --> 02:22:05,920
Speaker 1: And that's just the start. That was a little teaser

2751
02:22:06,760 --> 02:22:13,280
Speaker 1: um of new horizons Monday. We'll be back on Tuesday

2752
02:22:14,240 --> 02:22:17,440
Speaker 1: where we will recap all the madness that is coming

2753
02:22:17,560 --> 02:22:22,240
Speaker 1: up the fallout from UH Week eight teen, obviously a

2754
02:22:22,320 --> 02:22:24,959
Speaker 1: look ahead, the beginning of a look ahead to the playoffs,

2755
02:22:25,520 --> 02:22:28,320
Speaker 1: and of course seeing what's going on across the head

2756
02:22:28,320 --> 02:22:31,119
Speaker 1: coaching ranks. There's always a ton of turnover. Greggy, we've

2757
02:22:31,160 --> 02:22:33,640
Speaker 1: been doing it, like we said, for a decade now,

2758
02:22:34,320 --> 02:22:36,800
Speaker 1: it's crazy. You're gonna handle this. We'll be on top

2759
02:22:36,840 --> 02:22:39,960
Speaker 1: of it. You follow around the NFL, you will understand

2760
02:22:39,959 --> 02:22:43,640
Speaker 1: what's happening around the NFL. That's a promise. Ten years

2761
02:22:44,560 --> 02:22:47,960
Speaker 1: we're here in the Chris Wesleyan podcast studio. I was

2762
02:22:48,000 --> 02:22:50,680
Speaker 1: thinking of Chris when nihiim Hines made those plays. He

2763
02:22:50,720 --> 02:22:52,840
Speaker 1: was always a big Naheim Heinz guy. It's like, why

2764
02:22:52,840 --> 02:22:55,480
Speaker 1: can't they get the ball more to Naheim Hines. We

2765
02:22:55,480 --> 02:22:57,680
Speaker 1: we missed Chris so much. That's the end of the

2766
02:22:57,720 --> 02:23:02,520
Speaker 1: tenth season. It's crazy. I had Graver listen to our

2767
02:23:02,560 --> 02:23:06,920
Speaker 1: first Week seventeen regular finale show to see if he

2768
02:23:06,920 --> 02:23:09,760
Speaker 1: could find any good little nuggets, and he said, I

2769
02:23:09,800 --> 02:23:12,240
Speaker 1: was not even involved in that show because I was down.

2770
02:23:12,600 --> 02:23:14,480
Speaker 1: And we still did find some, but I was not

2771
02:23:14,560 --> 02:23:17,520
Speaker 1: in the show because I was down in the newsroom

2772
02:23:17,560 --> 02:23:19,720
Speaker 1: doing something else. I can only imagine it was like

2773
02:23:19,720 --> 02:23:22,840
Speaker 1: coaching firings or something like that. I don't know. Literally

2774
02:23:22,879 --> 02:23:27,600
Speaker 1: wasn't even on the show. So we still find a clip. Yes,

2775
02:23:27,680 --> 02:23:31,280
Speaker 1: I list an hour long podcast from ten years ago

2776
02:23:31,360 --> 02:23:34,640
Speaker 1: today and found a clip are putting our producer on

2777
02:23:34,680 --> 02:23:37,959
Speaker 1: that on on the Football Sunday itself. I should have

2778
02:23:37,959 --> 02:23:40,959
Speaker 1: told them earlier, but you know, we had the earbuds

2779
02:23:40,959 --> 02:23:43,360
Speaker 1: in while I was watching the games this afternoon. It's

2780
02:23:43,400 --> 02:23:45,240
Speaker 1: good stuff, it's good content. It was fun. I like

2781
02:23:45,320 --> 02:23:49,120
Speaker 1: staying in touch with Yeah, Like, do you think that

2782
02:23:49,920 --> 02:23:52,280
Speaker 1: the three of us as broadcasters have improved in the

2783
02:23:52,280 --> 02:23:55,040
Speaker 1: ten years based on what you listened to we defined?

2784
02:23:55,200 --> 02:23:57,880
Speaker 1: You could be honest? No, you, I mean you've obviously improved,

2785
02:23:58,040 --> 02:24:00,840
Speaker 1: but you were still like even back then, you could

2786
02:24:00,840 --> 02:24:03,520
Speaker 1: tell what superstars you are all going to be. See

2787
02:24:03,520 --> 02:24:06,320
Speaker 1: that's why he's on the show itself. Who who do

2788
02:24:06,360 --> 02:24:08,119
Speaker 1: you think did the best job? You would just listen

2789
02:24:08,160 --> 02:24:10,640
Speaker 1: to the whole episodes like who who was? Who shined

2790
02:24:10,680 --> 02:24:15,560
Speaker 1: the brightest? WESA? That cannot argue with that. It's still

2791
02:24:15,560 --> 02:24:18,920
Speaker 1: actually gonna bother markets. It's one time it will not

2792
02:24:19,000 --> 02:24:21,440
Speaker 1: because I think it's also deadly accurate. When Head goes

2793
02:24:21,480 --> 02:24:25,879
Speaker 1: to Pillow though Head's going to pill on about five

2794
02:24:25,920 --> 02:24:32,560
Speaker 1: minutes so I could hear West laughing. It is. This

2795
02:24:32,640 --> 02:24:36,800
Speaker 1: is hard to believe. Time flies, and and this is

2796
02:24:36,800 --> 02:24:40,280
Speaker 1: our second full regular season without Chris now but he's

2797
02:24:40,320 --> 02:24:43,040
Speaker 1: still very much part of the show and always will be.

2798
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Speaker 1: I love you, buddy, wherever you are. All right. Season

2799
02:24:48,160 --> 02:24:52,119
Speaker 1: is not over, the regular seasons over to seventy two down?

2800
02:24:52,200 --> 02:24:55,040
Speaker 1: How many to go? Greggy on the spot in a

2801
02:24:55,080 --> 02:25:03,960
Speaker 1: big spot? Thirteen the call, let's see you got five?

2802
02:25:05,240 --> 02:25:08,440
Speaker 1: You have five games a wild guard weekend four division.

2803
02:25:08,480 --> 02:25:14,360
Speaker 1: That's nine to championship eleven, super Bowl twelve. Right wait

2804
02:25:14,440 --> 02:25:23,080
Speaker 1: now six this weekend six four six six two six

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Speaker 1: four two one six Post four ten, post two post one.

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02:25:26,320 --> 02:25:31,160
Speaker 1: Nailed it? Oh the Pro Bowl Skills compensation. Sorry fourteen.

2807
02:25:34,480 --> 02:25:37,280
Speaker 1: Right in front of me, Mark Sessler is wearing an

2808
02:25:37,320 --> 02:25:42,680
Speaker 1: extra large number fifteen official Tim Tebow jersey, tucked into

2809
02:25:42,840 --> 02:25:46,480
Speaker 1: his jeans. As per the terms of the bet. This

2810
02:25:46,560 --> 02:25:50,800
Speaker 1: is tied into the week sixteen Brown's Jets game. Mark

2811
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Speaker 1: your men at your word. Congratuations. You you put a

2812
02:25:55,600 --> 02:25:58,039
Speaker 1: clown suit on Mark here. I didn't mean to. It

2813
02:25:58,120 --> 02:25:59,680
Speaker 1: was just to the bet. You know, I would have

2814
02:25:59,680 --> 02:26:02,280
Speaker 1: been wearing a weed in jersey. But Mark, thank you well.

2815
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Speaker 1: Listen and I you know, I sit next to Westling

2816
02:26:05,240 --> 02:26:07,960
Speaker 1: in the newsroom and I see the look of jealousy

2817
02:26:07,959 --> 02:26:09,800
Speaker 1: in his eye. Did I get to wear this for

2818
02:26:09,840 --> 02:26:11,640
Speaker 1: the first time ever? It was yours as a wedding

2819
02:26:11,640 --> 02:26:13,800
Speaker 1: gets had to pull the tag off of it. So

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02:26:13,920 --> 02:26:15,640
Speaker 1: it's not getting a lot of use by you. It's

2821
02:26:15,640 --> 02:26:19,199
Speaker 1: not jealousy, it's pity for Mark. He's fine with wearing

2822
02:26:19,200 --> 02:26:21,080
Speaker 1: the jersey. He looks good. He's got a nice dress

2823
02:26:21,080 --> 02:26:25,080
Speaker 1: shirt on underneath. He's really pulling off the look contrary

2824
02:26:25,080 --> 02:26:28,960
Speaker 1: to expectations. But every sad sack in the building has

2825
02:26:28,959 --> 02:26:30,840
Speaker 1: to come up and ask him about it. Why are

2826
02:26:30,840 --> 02:26:36,000
Speaker 1: you wearing a jersey? It has been slightly distracting. See

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Speaker 1: that was worth the hour. I stand by