WEBVTT - Richard Sherman Podcast - Week 14 Reaction 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:12.840 The volume. You don't do the Bowl championship. That should 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.760 always be the expectation. All right, man Ax, you go ahead. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.240 Welcome back to the Richard Sherman Podcast. What a week, Mitchell. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.840 The San Francisco forty nine Ers gonna win, the Seattle 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:26.520 Seahawks gonna win, the Buffalo Bills lose through the Rams. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.240 Your Detroit Lions got a huge win Thursday night in 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.960 front of us, in front of the home crowd. It 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.400 was an amazing game. You gotta be feeling good right now, Mitchell. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.520 Richard, I'm on cloud nine. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.280 I would be feeling a little bit better if Carolina 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.880 had squeaked that one out at the end. But our guy, 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.839 big play Sligh had to step up in the clutch. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:48.720 Richard. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.000 I was thinking about you all afternoon. The Seattle Seahawks 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.840 had a huge game. This is an opportunity for them 0:00:54.880 --> 0:01:00.800 to separate themselves from the pack in Arizona. Everyone's wondering 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:03.560 who is the Seattle Seahawks team. They've been a little 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.720 bit hotter of late, and they proved today. I think, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.560 at least to me, they proved today this team, this 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.160 team might be one to compete with. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:12.000 Richard. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.240 How fired up are you with that win in the Arizona. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.480 The Seattle Seahawks come out victorious. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.000 I'm so I'm so excited. That's their fourth straight coming 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.759 out of Dubai and Mike McDonald made adjustments. He said 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.760 he needed more urgency out of his team, and he's 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:29.160 getting more urgency, especially out of the defense. Kobe Bryant 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:33.640 with another interception, Ernest Jones with a huge interception. Both 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.600 both times these things set up scores for their offense. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.120 Kobe Bryant's interception sets up an immediate score to JSN 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:47.039 from Gino. Gino has another efficient game twenty four thirty 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.600 two thirty three in a touchdown. But it was Zach 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.840 Sharbonnay who really really shined in this game on both 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.680 on the ground and through the area. At seven catches 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.400 for fifty nine yards. He had twenty two carries for 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.680 one hundred and thirty four yards two touchdowns. One of 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.040 them was a huge fifty one yard run where he 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.560 just that looked like everything the Seattle Seahawks wanted to 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:15.160 see when they drafted him out of UCLA, and he delivered. Obviously, 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.840 your guy K nine is banged up, but he stepped 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.600 up in a huge way. This game, JSN continues his 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.239 very consistent season. Five catches for eighty two yards. In 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.320 the touchdown we talked about, Jonathan Hankins gets the sack, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.520 but it just was a solid effort. And I know 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.880 that the Big Cat didn't get the huge play this week, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.480 didn't get the highlight play, but he made a number 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.120 of huge deflections, taking on double teams all day, freeing 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.240 up these linebackers. This defense just looks like a whole 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.960 different beast. They were harassing Kyler all night long. They 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.399 were playing tight coverage. Devin Witherspoon again is all over 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.320 the place. Tyreek Wohland Man, I thought he had a pick. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.880 He undercut Marvin Harrison on a comeback route in this game, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.680 and it was a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful cover play, and 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.480 I thought he was gonna book him up the sideline 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.920 for six. But they had the offensive PI. Marvin Harrison 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.760 Junior wanted to hate on him. Arizona Cardinal team has 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.000 really started to stumble as of late. You know, they're 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.880 still running the ball well. Kyler's playing decent, but he 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.840 just looked rattled early on. This defense was getting to him. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.839 They were hitting him, they were turning the ball over. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.280 He had a great throw where he attacked Kobe Bryant 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.440 on the corner route score a touchdown early in the game. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.160 But after that, this defense cut the water off and 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:31.240 just kept going all night long. We talked about the 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.200 run game from the offense. This Seattle Seahawks team looks 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.360 really good and I can't wait to see them Sunday 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.800 night against the Green Bay Packers next week. That's going 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.080 to be a great game, a game that really I mean, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.520 I keep saying barometer, I keep saying litmus test. They've 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.520 won four in a row. But this Packers team has 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.480 looked really good. You saw him take care of Detroit 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:53.400 Lions to the wire. So if the Seattle Seahawks can 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.200 go in there and get their fifth straight, our our 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.880 host the Packers and get their fifth straight, these conversations 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.720 start to change, Mitchell. For this first year coach Mike McDonald, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.480 we have to start thinking, oh to the year. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.000 I wouldn't go that far, Richard. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.600 I got a guy here in Detroit named Dan Campbell 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:17.839 that would have an argument with you about that. But listen, 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:23.880 this Seattle Seahawks team, they've surely impressed, and we questioned them. 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.159 You certainly questioned them, and I was scratching my head 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.800 at the trade deadline when they dealt both their linebackers 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.960 and it seemed like they totally revamped their linebacking corps 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.560 and we both kind of questioned johsh Schneider at that point. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.760 But since then, four straight opponents held to twenty points 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.840 or less. You know, this game did not start off 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.440 great for them. I'm Kyler Murray connected with Michael Wilson 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.120 on a forty yard forty one yard touchdown right out 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.080 the gates, and Seattle looked like they might be in 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.479 for a long day, and then they recover immediately. This 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.760 was a huge, huge, huge win for the Seattle Seahawks. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.080 And you're absolutely right. I mean next Sunday night against 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.280 the Packers, when they host the Packers, that is going 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.839 to be the bar because we saw San Francisco. You know, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.280 look back like San Francisco. They're not out of the 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.320 race certainly yet. There's still a couple of weeks left 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.719 in this season for them to make up ground. But 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.960 if the Seattle Seahawks can continue their winning ways and 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:22.200 put this division to bed, you got to look out 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:26.040 for them in the playoffs. Because Geno Smith only six 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.039 incompletions today. I mean, you gotta love to see that 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.400 from Gino. What do they have to do to take 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.760 out the Packers because the Packers are in desperate need 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:34.960 of it to win as well. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.359 It starts with stopping Josh Jacobs. That's going to be 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.120 the biggest task. That's the task I don't think anybody 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.080 has done, including your Detroit Lions, but your Detroit Lions 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.320 defensive line is a lot more banged up. They have 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.400 to have a plan to stop Josh Jacobs. If you 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.160 stop Josh Jacobs, then you put more pressure on Jordan 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.679 Love to really drop back. Matt Laflor has not felt 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.360 comfortable with allowing Jordan Love to throw the ball born 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.200 in twenty five, twenty twenty five times a game. If 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.600 he gets to throwing thirty thirty five times a game, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.840 this team may be in trouble because he gets a 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.240 little reckless with the football. He starts to get a 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:13.320 little chaotic, a little a little cavalier, pushing the ball 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:17.360 down the field, allowing believing in his arm strength, believing 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.520 in his arm talent, and putting the ball in harm's way. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.720 We've seen that throughout the season, and that's why the 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:23.760 last few games you just have not seen him really 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.280 pushed the ball down the field as much as they 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.880 had earlier in the year. They've really leaned on the 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.360 run game. They're going to have to protect the football 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:34.640 because Green Bay Packers turn it over at a really 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.320 high level. Especially on defense. Jeff Afley has done a 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.599 really great job all year long just coaching his team 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.159 put him in good position. If they can get JayR 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.919 Alexander back, that'd be a huge boost for this defense 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.160 and change the way that they're covering. Maybe they run 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.560 a little bit more man coverage, so these receivers are 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.360 going to have to beat man coverage consistently. But I'm 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.000 just going to enjoy this one. This team has to 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.160 feel good going on the road getting their fourth straight win. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:05.560 They look really good, they look confident, they look together. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.640 You could see just the camaraderie on defense, the togetherness, 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:12.440 guys celebrating one another, celebrating all victories. It's really cool 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.760 to see. But you know what else is cool to see? Mitchell. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.680 Here comes the hat change. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:23.320 Hat change Menchell hat Change the San Francisco forty nine ers, 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:27.400 and they had a great bounce back game. Struggling struggling, 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.680 breaking a three game losing streak that had me and 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:35.720 everybody else really concerned. We can talk about all the 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.440 injuries that they have, the guys that are out right now, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.120 the guys that went to IR, but I don't want 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.480 to talk about that right now. I want to talk 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.920 about the guys that played. Right now, we're going to 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.040 talk about Brock Perdy twenty for twenty five, three hundred 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:52.600 and twenty five yards, two touchdowns. Isaac Garndo with a 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.160 really impressive game. Fifteen carries for seventy eight yards to 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.960 two touchdowns, two catches for fifty yards, really getting dynamic. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.080 One of them. I thought that could have been a touchdown. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.840 Brock perty put that ball up early. I thought Grinda 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.520 was gonna be able to roll into the end zone. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.480 He wasn't able to do it. But George Kittle, welcome back, 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:15.160 my friend, Welcome back to getting targets. The creativity and 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:18.880 the play calling looked great. A lot of screens, middle screens, 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:24.640 outside screens, just pushing it over routes. Kittle was involved 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.679 in just about every quarter of the game. They finally 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.720 don't waste a good Juwan Jennings game. Seven catches for 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.640 ninety yards, two touchdowns and they get the win. You know, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.439 every other time Juwan has a great game, they find 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.240 a way to stumble and lose that game. So I'm 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.240 just happy for him. I'm happy for the team he 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.080 was he was going at you know, their dbs. They 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:48.200 were going back and forth with Jalen Johnson, friend of 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.400 the program, and they were battling. It's always good to 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.520 see that kind of battle. But San Francisco forty nine 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.560 ers putting up these kind of points was really good 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:59.040 to see thirty eight points in the game against the 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.480 Chicago defense has played really good throughout this season and 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.160 have a lot of talent. Roma Doonza gets active, gets 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.480 his first two i mean gets two touchdowns in this game. 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.200 But Caleb Williams gets sacked seven times, which was great 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.720 for the San Francisco verdy nine ers because without Nick Bosa, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.120 they just haven't been able to get home very consistently. 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.400 It was good to see Gross Matos get his three sacks, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.120 Leonard Floyd got two sacks. It was a collective effort 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.640 and just you could see the sense of urgency from 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.400 the d line. You could see the linebackers, everybody flying around. 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.719 It looked like a really good team. Now I get 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.960 to go to San Francisco this Thursday to watch my 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:42.600 San Francisco forty nine Ers play the La Rams in 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:47.080 the game that's gonna be. It's gonna be the loser 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.080 of this game. Likely it kills their hopes at the 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.600 playoffs at the division. Honestly, the Seattle Seahawks might have 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.600 pulled away already with the division. You know, in order 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.240 for either of these teams to have a chance to 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.480 win it, they're gonna need some help and need some 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.120 losses from the Seattle Seahawks. But anything is possible to 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:04.400 the National Football League. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.719 The Chicago Bears started off the season four and two, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.839 and everyone's like, holy cow, maybe this NFC North is 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.439 gonna get four teams in the playoffs. And they've lost 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:17.360 seven straight since. And you know, they wanted this game bad, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.440 but the forty nine Ers wanted it a lot more, 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.040 and they needed it a lot more. They've been bruised, 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.280 they've been battered, they've been without several of their best players, 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:29.880 but they lean on the unknown. Isaac Grendo goes off. 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.000 I mean, like you said, you lean on the reliable, 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.760 George Kittle, Richard I promise you, whoever that two seed 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.840 is in this NFL playoffs, if the San Francisco forty 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.520 nine ers are able to sneak in as that seventh seed, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.440 they are not gonna want to see them. For the 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.959 love of God, please do not have the Detroit Lions 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.240 be the two seed and play in the San Francisco 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:52.719 forty nine ers at home. 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Everybody saw LA having a chance, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.440 adding myself, the Buffalo Bills have been rolling Josh Allen 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.960 getting MVP chance in every stadium he goes to because 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.720 Buffalo Bills fans travel well, but not so fast. My 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.840 friend old Lee Corso, when you're playing Matt Stafford, you 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:17.880 better bring you better bring your lunch, Baill, and you 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.680 better bring your offense. And they did. If Buffalo Bill 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.040 scored forty two points in this game, and I'm sure 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.560 if they walked in thinking, hey, Josh Allen's gonna have 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:31.040 five touchdowns, six touchdowns. He's gonna throw for three, he's 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.880 gonna run for three. We're gonna score forty two points. 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.760 Kalisha Kiir is gonna have five kits for one hundred 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.880 and six yards, Amari Cooper six catches for ninety five yards. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:45.800 You're like, that's a dug no, no, not this time. 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.400 Matt Stafford twenty three to thirty three hundred and twenty 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.079 yards two touchdowns, didn't get sacked once. You gotta give 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:56.120 that Rams offensive line a lot of credit because this 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.200 is a defense that gets pressure on the quarterback. They 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.439 give a lot of exotic looks, they bring pressure, they 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.199 get home, and they were not able to sack him once. 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:08.240 But Pooking the cool. The game Pooking Nikola had was legendary. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.880 Some of those catches he's left me scratching my head 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.040 because I I just I couldn't explain it. I mean 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:19.560 the one where he backed up and kind of went 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:23.400 over his shoulder, got his feet down like landed, and 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.800 then another one on the same sideline pushed the defender 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.440 by fly by catch it over his head like incredible 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:35.080 catches and then the screen for the dagger touchdown to 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.200 finish this game off Cooper Cup doing you know, five 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.480 for ninety two in a touchdown, but doing all the 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:46.120 dirty work blocking had a huge block on the final 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.880 Pooking the cool touchdown. It was a really great play. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.640 Just sacrificing these guys. Kyrin William has twenty nine rushers 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.640 for eighty seven yards and two touchdowns. They're doing their scraping, clawing, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.880 doing everything they can to win these ball games. But 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:05.640 Buffalo Bill's losing a game like this after everybody told 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.120 me that it was that's the reason why Josh Allen 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.720 was his candidacy was so great. And mind you, Josh 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.360 Allen really raised his bar and scored six touchdowns in 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.640 this game. So is MVP candidacy For the numbers guy 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:24.480 goes up tremendously. But for the argument that everybody's been 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:27.080 trying to make about, hey, it's because his team is 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:32.160 winning so much. Now they have their third loss? Has 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.960 that change the argument at all? Is does that make 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.400 it better? Is it worse? Now? Now the Bill's got 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.280 to go to Detroit and beat the Detroit Lions, so 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.360 they could potentially beat ten and four or they can 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.920 go eleven and three. But if they're ten and four, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.920 does that change things? Like That's why this whole thing, that, 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.840 that whole idea and that whole argument was just it 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:57.360 was not great. And Josh Allen had an MVP like 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.680 performance today two hundred and thirty I mean three hundred 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.400 and forty yards, three touchdowns, passing, three rushing, ten carries 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.280 for eighty two yards, Like that's impact that's a huge impact. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.320 That's MVP candidate, But you have to look at the overall. 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:16.240 He's having MVP performances. Win his team needs them late 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.440 in the season, that's definitely gonna bolster his chances. But 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.080 if they lose these games down the stretch and other 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.720 teams win, that's going to bolster their chance. Like if 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.680 the Philadelphia Eagles would have lost this game, that would 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:33.160 diminish Sakwan Barkley's chances. But he just became the all 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.520 time leading run or broke the single season rec rushing 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:41.640 record for the Philadelphia Eagles already, and it's only week fourteen, 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:44.600 and so he has three more weeks to put up 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:46.960 more yards and break it even further and push down 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:52.680 below That's what MVP candidates. It's always special seasons, records breaking, 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:55.360 you know, leading the league those that's the kind of 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.640 things you say about MVP candidates. I'm sorry, I know 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.080 they don't want to give it to a running back 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.480 and they're saying, ain't give it to a running back anymore, 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.840 and YadA, YadA, YadA, But at some point you gotta 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:07.560 look and say, when sacred Jalen Hurst do for on 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.200 one hundred and thirty yards is game something like that 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.800 wasn't a great game from Jalen Hurts by any stretch 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.320 of the imagination. And if he's playing like that and 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.040 the Philadelphia Eagles are still winning the games, it's because 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.840 Saquon Barkley is taken over and he was running his 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:25.560 butt off. And that's a story. Every single week. This 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.760 team goes as Saquon Barkley goes, and they stumble when 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:31.119 Sakuon Barkley is not having a great game. He just 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.320 has not had many great bad games this season, so 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.080 they don't lose. But you know that's my little Ted 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:40.480 talk for the day, Mitchell. The Buffalo Bills have a 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.640 tough week next week against the Lines. We already talked 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:46.000 about the Rams going to San Francisco to play San 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:48.320 Francisco forty nine ers. I'm excited to be there for 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.719 that week for that game. And that's this week's Sunday 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.040 Night food Ball, brought to you by Uber Eats, the 0:17:55.119 --> 0:18:00.360 official on demand delivery partner of the NFL. Uber the 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:04.960 best game day deals all season long. Order now for 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:05.560 game Day. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:10.960 The LA Rams are seven and six. The Seattle Seahawks 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.639 are eight and five. LA Rams if they play like 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.919 this down the stretch. They're healthy, they're getting now all 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.880 their playmakers involved. Seattle's doing the same thing, and they're 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.000 looking a hell of a lot better. Do you have 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.520 that much faith the Seattle Seahawks can hold this team 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.480 down with four games ranting in the schedule. 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.000 Well, anything can happen. I mean, I can't say I 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.600 predicted any of this that happened the way it did. 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.520 And so I don't know. If the Seattle Seahawks keep winning, 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.119 they control their destiny. And it's always tough when you 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.159 don't control your destiny. If the Seattle Seahawks keep winning, 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.240 it's their division, they go away with it. The San 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.800 Francisco forty nine ers only chance is to win it 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.040 go in as a wild card team, as the seventh seed, 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.200 and so there's a lot of things that got to 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.159 happen there for them to get in as that last 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:05.160 wild card team. But win and give yourself the best chance. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:06.399 You know, at this point, I think they got to 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.280 win every game. They got to win out and just 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.359 to give themselves a shot at ten and seven, and 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.679 at ten and seven, you know, I'm sure they'll have 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.160 an argument. You know, I'm not sure they have every 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.720 tie breaker, honestly, but that will be giving themselves the 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:22.920 best chance. And these guys are continuing to fight hard, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:24.679 They're gonna get healthier, and if they do get in 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:26.760 those playoffs, it's going to be a very difficult team 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:28.720 to be They're going to be a very difficult team 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:33.240 to put out of these playoffs, and so we'll see. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.800 Let's talk about one of the most shocking, less yet 0:19:39.119 --> 0:19:41.280 unshocking team of the year. 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:42.920 It's the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.520 I mean, every year we're talking about how the hell 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.960 are they about to make the playoffs again? And they're 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.919 not only making the playoffs their borderline running away with 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.679 this division. They're six and one since Russ has been 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:58.200 a starter. Let's talk about Russ right now. He didn't 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.920 have the best statistical game, but he's without his number 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.639 one option and George Pickens. I know they're playing the 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:07.360 low league Cleveland Browns, but the Browns just beat him 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.320 two weeks ago. How impressed are you with the Steelers 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.199 right now and the way they're showcasing it to the 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.280 NFL that they are true competitors for the for the 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.280 whole kitten kabudle the Super Bowl. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.720 Well, I mean, this defense really stepped up this game. Obviously, 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.239 you just talked about Russ and what he's done. I mean, 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.560 was it was fifteen or twenty six, one hundred and 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.200 fifty eight yards, two touchdowns, you know, not a ton 0:20:29.359 --> 0:20:31.520 of action, but like you said, George Pickens was out, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:36.199 really leaned on Mike Williams a little bit more, Calvin 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:38.679 Austin a little bit more. Najie Harris still running the 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.119 ball well, sixteen carriage fifty three yards, you know, just 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:45.600 doing enough. But that defense, Cam Hayward huge plays, James 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:49.960 Pierre with an interception, Keanu Benton with the interception. That's 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:51.760 the big reason why they win this game. And it's 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.919 happened both ways because I guess the Cincinnati Bengals, the 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:59.760 offense had scored forty four points and you know, win 0:20:59.800 --> 0:21:02.080 all and need when they needed to have it. In 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:05.199 this game, the defense steps up, holds Jamis will Winston 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:09.320 the twenty and twelve yards, hosts this offense to fourteen points. 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.960 The offense scores twenty seven points. And that's what this team. 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.480 They're so balanced, they're so balanced, and they're gonna have 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:17.679 a tough decision at the end of the season to 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.239 make with in regards to Russell Wilson and what they 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:21.879