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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast are in charge of hiring

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Speaker 1: a new Jets head coach. Welcome to hire solo already.

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

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Speaker 1: My name is Van Hanzas, and I come to you

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Speaker 1: from a virtual room filled with some heroes, Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Greg Rosenhal. What is boys, like? We just see each

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Speaker 1: other too much. I have nothing nothing less to say

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Speaker 1: to you too. There's not a day that goes by

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Speaker 1: that we don't see each other. And and and it

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Speaker 1: is good actually to have this, you know, regular time.

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Speaker 1: But even on the day's off, it's like what we'll

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Speaker 1: be on a little zoom meeting, so I get to

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Speaker 1: see your outfits every day. It's exciting. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: we're like going study together really since March, but for

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Speaker 1: many many months longer than that. But I mean it's

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Speaker 1: been heavy since March. This is the Divisional Round playoff

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Speaker 1: preview episode and I am excited as we all are.

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Speaker 1: This is is always so much fun. Uh. This week

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Speaker 1: of football, it's the best teams in the league. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the NFC East is not involved, and boys, you know

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Speaker 1: that I am the power rankings guy on NFL dot Com. Uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's how my bread gets budded. Dan Hans shout

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Speaker 1: out in the digital space if you will. Um So

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Speaker 1: I decided, Uh, since I'm involved with making lists and

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Speaker 1: writing blurbs and being called an asshole by extremists and

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Speaker 1: other chocolodytes of the Internet, I'm going to offer up

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Speaker 1: a list power ranking list of the remaining quarterbacks. Shoutout,

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Speaker 1: and I want you guys to tell me if you

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Speaker 1: agree or disagree. There we go. Number one Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: Number two Aaron Rodgers, a little concert. What is this

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Speaker 1: now heading into the week year? And now number three

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Number four Lamar And that was tough because

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Speaker 1: umber five is Tom Brady, and I love how Tom

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Speaker 1: Brady looks right now, but I think Lamar is just

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Speaker 1: a little more special at this stage. Number six close call,

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Speaker 1: but Baker Mark. How about that? Number seven Drew Brees

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Speaker 1: And number eight Jared Goff or John Wolford, any anybody

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Speaker 1: you have an issue with that order now? Unfortunately, you know,

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Speaker 1: I kind of want to argue. This will be an

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Speaker 1: article I think next week on QB Index. They usually

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Speaker 1: It's usually this week. Um, I would probably put Brady

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Speaker 1: you know he's higher than Mahomes. I mean, so is

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Speaker 1: Um WHOA well, just right now, the future Aaron Rodgers.

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Speaker 1: good those five are that Lamar is either fourth or

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Speaker 1: They're all about the same. Those top five are all

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Speaker 1: that's true. Um, we're gonna get into all of the games.

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Speaker 1: But listen, you know where we're at on this podcast

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Speaker 1: right now, the sessler and all the years of misery

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Speaker 1: started the show with anything else other than the defending

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Speaker 1: world champion Chiefs against Mark's Cleveland Browns. Ricky, I knew

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Speaker 1: mean loyalist paying off Mark you, I think I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it's loving. Ultimately, You're not the only Brown's backer at

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Speaker 1: Pipe Greg doesn't. Nick Shook is also gonna jump on

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Speaker 1: for having me. Wow, how are you feeling right now?

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Speaker 1: at this time with the Cleveland Browns. I don't know

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Speaker 1: a bad job. That's a bad job picking against your

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Speaker 1: reverse psychology. Is is it that or something else? Nick? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was a Nathan's a Girl special. I'm sure. Um No,

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that's a bad job. I think

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Speaker 1: there's no bad blood. It's just uh, you know, I

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Speaker 1: And I know that the kind of popular line here

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm really surprised that the Chiefs are ten point favorites.

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Speaker 1: last year, but then got going and right now their

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Speaker 1: offenses fit their you know, third or fourth in the league.

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Speaker 1: You know in d V O A and everything, like

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Speaker 1: they're not quite where they were last year or the

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Speaker 1: year before. I really believe that now. I mean that,

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Speaker 1: of course, I'm just saying like they're not quite the

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Speaker 1: same team right now. Maybe they'll turn flip the switch

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Speaker 1: and will all be around. All right, let's move on

435
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Speaker 1: the Ravens. They moved on within over the Tennessee Titans.

436
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Speaker 1: Great performance by their defense, Lamar made that special play

437
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Speaker 1: with his legs. UH. Their reward for advancing out a

438
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Speaker 1: wild card round is a trip to Orchard Park to

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Speaker 1: face the Bills, who just barely got by the Colts.

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Speaker 1: Um and UH back and forth game that really was

441
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Speaker 1: a coin flip game, and it seemed like, I don't

442
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Speaker 1: know just if we're talking about the good fortunes and

443
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Speaker 1: positive vibes around the Browns Bills to the all the

444
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Speaker 1: things that went right for the Bills, with those sideline

445
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Speaker 1: boundary catches by Gabe Davis, the off sides drawing the

446
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Speaker 1: Tennessee the Indianapolis defender off sides, the fumble late in

447
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Speaker 1: the game that ended up in the arms of UH,

448
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Speaker 1: the Bills offensive lineman. They it just worked out for

449
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Speaker 1: the Bills, and I think they're gonna have to be

450
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Speaker 1: better to beat the Ravens, who, obviously um are surging

451
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Speaker 1: right now six straight wins and this is a Lamar

452
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Speaker 1: Jackson versus Josh Allen special two studs out of the

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Speaker 1: two thousand eighteen UM NFL draft. What are you thinking

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Speaker 1: on this one, Greg, I'm so excited, Like I just

455
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Speaker 1: checked while you're talking there your power rankings, just because

456
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Speaker 1: it's curious, because to me these are I would go

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Bills, Ravens one to three and Um. I don't

458
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Speaker 1: think there's like a super dominant team in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: but I could see either one of these teams winning

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I got Chiefs Bill's Packers. I saw

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Speaker 1: you had so you had you had three of the

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Speaker 1: top four. But that's that's how I go right now.

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Speaker 1: The Ravens defensive performance last week really the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, but they convinced me last week was so impressive.

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Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen, like I just set his playing

466
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Speaker 1: quarterback at a level that there's almost nothing you can do.

467
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Speaker 1: I'm everyone is always looking for the person to compare

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Speaker 1: Alan too and the obvious one. You know, if you

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Speaker 1: just take away the physicality, I guess in the running,

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Speaker 1: which is a big deal, but is Mahomes because if

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Speaker 1: you don't keep him in the pocket, and this is

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Speaker 1: true both of these quarterbacks, you're dead. But with Alan,

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Speaker 1: the difference is like the throws he's making outside the

474
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Speaker 1: pocket just crazy. I mean they're just crazy. The arm

475
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Speaker 1: strength and almost the creativity of what he tries to

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Speaker 1: go for it, it's just crazy. And the flick of

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Speaker 1: his wrist on that deep pass as an example what

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Speaker 1: you're saying, uh last weekend, it's just like there are

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Speaker 1: very few guys and Mahomes maybe is the only other

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Speaker 1: one that can make that throw so effortlessly right, and

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Speaker 1: you can kind of put up the perfect defense defense

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Speaker 1: for him, and he's still gonna get you. And and

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Speaker 1: I And one thing I was looking for heady into

484
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Speaker 1: last week and they did it was are they gonna

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Speaker 1: start let your calling plays for Alan running more? And

486
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Speaker 1: they did And that was a big part of last

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Speaker 1: week's game. And I think that's something regular season, maybe

488
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Speaker 1: not as much postseason. We're gonna do it. And so

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Speaker 1: I love mobile quarterbacks. These are two, you know, might

490
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Speaker 1: be the best mobile quarterback matchup we've ever seen in

491
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. It's just it's awesome. I adore this matchup.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's a quarterback matchup we never would have

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Speaker 1: seen ten years ago. Um, it wouldn't have even been

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Speaker 1: something you could have imagined twenty years ago. And it's

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Speaker 1: two teams that have embraced what their quarterbacks have to offer,

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Speaker 1: and it's a lot of it is like I think

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Speaker 1: the coaching matchup here is fascinating. Um Dan, I like

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Speaker 1: what you said, though I'm a little I'd be a

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Speaker 1: little concerned about Buffalo's defense. They've been better over the

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Speaker 1: past you know, month plus, but they gave up four

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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two yards last week. Uh they Now,

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts, I think we were a little cold,

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Speaker 1: not just us, but in general people were a little

504
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Speaker 1: icy towards the Colts last week and their chances because

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Speaker 1: I think some of the energy around Buffalo and the

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Speaker 1: way Buffalo was playing. Colts put up a real good

507
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Speaker 1: fight in that game, but to me, it was like

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Speaker 1: Buffalo overcoming in the first half starts, you know, three

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Speaker 1: starts inside their eleven yard line, a fourth and at

510
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Speaker 1: the fifteen, like terrible field position early on, and they

511
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Speaker 1: just made play after play and I think got over

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Speaker 1: the hump almost psychologically in a game where it was

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Speaker 1: like Buffalo just like these other teams needed to get

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Speaker 1: that playoff win, and there was all you know, Buffalo

515
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Speaker 1: is more like everyone's picking Buffalo. That's a tough place

516
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Speaker 1: to be and there might have been some nerves here

517
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Speaker 1: and there, but they worked their way out of it.

518
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Speaker 1: But then you look at the Ravens, same thing for them.

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Speaker 1: Downtown Nothing. The way that they battled out of that

520
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Speaker 1: was one of the most I thought resilient showings by

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Speaker 1: any team all year. And the Ravens after that moment

522
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Speaker 1: when they when Lamar Jackson had that forty eight yard run,

523
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Speaker 1: two things were happening. I thought, one rip off, any

524
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Speaker 1: rip off the band aid. The Ravens are here, They're

525
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Speaker 1: gonna do what they need to do. But Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: once he gets going like that, you have to almost

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Speaker 1: view him as unstoppable. And the Titans had no answer.

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Speaker 1: And so I don't love their passing game, but I

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Speaker 1: love that they get enough passes through the air for

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Speaker 1: Lamar to make them versatile enough where they're not a

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Speaker 1: one trick pony. They're extremely dangerous. I thought that Greg

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Speaker 1: Roman had one of his better games you know, second

533
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Speaker 1: quarter through the end, one of the better coaching games

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Speaker 1: he's had all year. He's been totally ignored as a

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Speaker 1: head coaching candidate this time around. Um. Same with Don

536
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,679
Speaker 1: Wing Martindale. I think that's a complete oversight. These are

537
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Speaker 1: two of the best coordinators in the game, and the Ravens,

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Speaker 1: to me, will take this thing right to the final minutes.

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Speaker 1: I think it was overlooked to your point, Mark how

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Speaker 1: dangerous the spot the Bills were in last week, just

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Speaker 1: because there was so much like assumption that the Bills

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Speaker 1: forgot about winning wild card weekend. We'll see you an

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Speaker 1: arrowhead at the championship game, like that was where everyone's

544
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: heads were at and maybe still is um. And it

545
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Speaker 1: wasn't the Chicago Bears that was waiting for them in

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Speaker 1: that wild card bound it was a very good Cults team. UM,

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Speaker 1: So good on them for being able to hold off

548
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Speaker 1: what what really felt like if there was ever if

549
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Speaker 1: there's ever such thing, and I know this, Clayboon might

550
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,479
Speaker 1: faint when he hears this, there's ever such thing as

551
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Speaker 1: a trap game in the playoffs. That's what the Bills

552
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Speaker 1: had to get pass last weekend, and they didn't. So

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00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: good good on. Then to your other point about the defense,

554
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: they gave up yes, close to five yards. They didn't

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00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,879
Speaker 1: have a turnover, and what's what spooked me, And if

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Speaker 1: I'm a Buffalo fan, especially with someone the specials Lamar

557
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,600
Speaker 1: Jackson now coming into the building. Was at after a

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Speaker 1: touchdown with fourteen eleven to play, it's against the Colts,

559
00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: and you you think, oh, we got away. You know

560
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: there was We nearly got picked off there, but we

561
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Speaker 1: got the game under control. We're gonna take it home.

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Speaker 1: Colts get the ball seven place, seventy five yards, touched

563
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Speaker 1: down in two and a half minutes. Bills come back,

564
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: kick a field goal to make it sixteen. Calm things

565
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 1: down a little bit again. Colts get the ball back

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Speaker 1: five place, seventy six yards and under two minutes to

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Speaker 1: make it four. That was not a good look for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo defense, which showed no ability to close out

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Speaker 1: the game. And oh, by the way, Philip Rivers had

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Speaker 1: first than ten inside Buffalo territory with a minute to play,

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Speaker 1: didn't get so you give the Bill's credit for that,

572
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: but that defense needs to be better in this spot. Well,

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Speaker 1: they also have shown that this isn't a one time thing.

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Speaker 1: So they gave up more than two hundred yards twice

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Speaker 1: this year. Um, they've given up more than two hundred

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00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: yards seven times since McDermott's been there, which is among

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Speaker 1: the worst in the league. It's a defense built to

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00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: stop the pass first. Um, it's a little bit of

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00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 1: a lighter, faster defense. They give up runs to the

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Speaker 1: outside that the Patriots ran all over them twice. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they gave up more than one sixty I think another

582
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: three or four times, including last week. And so okay,

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Speaker 1: a team that runs for the outside well can can

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Speaker 1: present problems. Oh hello Ravens, I mean they they I

585
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: know they shut down the Ravens pretty well last year,

586
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Speaker 1: which you know, it's it's something to think about, you know,

587
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: in that matchup in the regular season where both quarterbacks

588
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: really struggled. I mean Josh Allen to a much bigger degree,

589
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 1: but Lamar struggled to considering it was his MVP season.

590
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 1: But they need their their guys up front to step up,

591
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Speaker 1: like all their star is. Jerry Hughes had a bad game,

592
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: Tradevious White had a bad game last week. He's got

593
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: to be matched up on Hollywood Brown. We give Hollywood

594
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: Brown so much grief I mean, if there's such a

595
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: thing as clutch, I don't quite believe it in this way.

596
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: But like his best two games of his career are

597
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: his two playoff games. He showed up and was a

598
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: was great last week. He won that matchup over and

599
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 1: over a lot of key first downs and they went

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Speaker 1: to him. Man if so is he not progressed from

601
00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 1: Hawthorne to Hollywood? He's all the waywood? Well, here was

602
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: the thing, wasn't it always like Hollywood, Florida? So in

603
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: a way like never you know, it was always kind

604
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Speaker 1: of a reed any man named themselves after Hollywood, Florida,

605
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: that fields somewhere. I could be wrong, but I don't

606
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Speaker 1: think it was Hollywood, California. It was a different Hollywood. Well,

607
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: that was his first hundred yard games since Week one,

608
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: and so you're right they needed it Um, And you know,

609
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 1: it's it's no small thing that after that first quarter

610
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: where the Titans totally exposed the Ravens, I thought that

611
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: their linebackers, Um their secondary grew stronger as the game

612
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: went along. They wind up allowing to under nine total

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Speaker 1: yards in thirteen points. Um shutting down Derrick Henry, shutting

614
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: down Tennessee in general after the first quarter, And to me,

615
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: that's just I like, when Marcus Peters is gonna make

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Speaker 1: some play in this game, is you're gonna get one

617
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: of these raven Esque turnovers um that puts the Bills

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00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: in a tight spot. So I to me, this thing

619
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Speaker 1: is one of the tougher games to predict. Uh well,

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Speaker 1: basically since Baltimore Tennessee a week ago. That's how these

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Speaker 1: games go. I'm taking the Ravens, and I feel okay

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Speaker 1: about it because I think Alan is gonna just I

623
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Speaker 1: actually think he has more burden on him than Lamar,

624
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Speaker 1: even because I think the Ravens defense is gonna be

625
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: better and I think he's got more of a running game,

626
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: and so I think Alan is just gonna have to

627
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: be incredible. Any any obviously could be. But I do like, um,

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00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 1: you know, when you watch this Ravens team, they have

629
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Speaker 1: this sort of the field it's such a stupid thing

630
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: to go off, but they have the feel of a

631
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Speaker 1: team that I can just imagine Super Bowl features being

632
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:02,040
Speaker 1: written about what this veteran defense full of badasses Judean

633
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: and Campbell and Peters and Humphrey and they've all McPhee

634
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 1: suddenly shows up, he goes over to Chicago, he comes back.

635
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: It's like all these guys, these are grown men, like

636
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: they came out involved last week on defense, they have

637
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,239
Speaker 1: that Ravens feel and I don't know, I can just

638
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 1: see them continuing to win. I have the Chiefs over

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00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: the Browns by field goal in a close game. I

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Speaker 1: also this one. I think, I like, I had to

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Speaker 1: submit my picks to uh NFL dot com. I have

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Speaker 1: Ravens eight, Bills seven. That type of game we'll see.

643
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,000
Speaker 1: I think it's hard. It's really hard to pick this

644
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,719
Speaker 1: game as a blowout in either direction. Um, it becomes

645
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,680
Speaker 1: to me basically a coin flip game. I'd like to

646
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: see the Bills advance because I love the story and

647
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: the fans uh and all that. Um, But it feels

648
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 1: like just something special going on in Baltimore now with

649
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 1: that defense rising in Lamar. Now it should be said,

650
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: I say that, and I picked the Ravens, And I

651
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: think some of my misgivings of out the defense and

652
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: Buffalo got me nervous, and that's how it it led

653
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 1: to the picking the Ravens. You know, the Ravens only

654
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: at twenty points last week. You get all caught up

655
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: in the big play um by Lamar, But overall that

656
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: wasn't a huge offensive performance. Is he gonna be able

657
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: to pass the ball? If Josh Allen has another big day?

658
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: And this is this is a great game I I picked. Um,

659
00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: I sent picks to the same place, and I'm looking

660
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: at what I suggested here and I'm not totally thrilled

661
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: with it. But I picked Bills twenty seven, Ravens eighteen

662
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: in that in that world, Um, it's just the collapse

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00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,600
Speaker 1: of the Ravens probably late in the game or something. UM.

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Speaker 1: If I as we get closer, I feel like it's

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00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: a field goal type game. One thing I noticed last

666
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: week is like on the read option plays, like Lamar

667
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: is not handing it off anymore. They actually they actually

668
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: stopped Lamar many times in put them in long yard situations.

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00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: But he's he knows like I'm the I'm the best

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00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: player on the field. I'm gonna pop a couple here,

671
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: and he did. He popped like three or four, including

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00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: that touchdown. It's like he's no longer handed off. He's

673
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: just like I'm gonna take over. I was gonna say

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00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 1: there's a lot of horizontal Lamar running in the first

675
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: half of that game, and this is stupid do do this,

676
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: but you know it also sometimes makes a point. Take

677
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: out the forty eight yards score and the run around

678
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 1: the right end that clinched the game. And I would

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00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 1: bet he was at about three yards to carry the

680
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: rest of the way. Maybe made some great throws though

681
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: that the third down throw to Andrews while he's running

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00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: to the sideline at the end of the first quarter,

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00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,480
Speaker 1: like one of the deep outs to Brown hit. The

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00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: thing about Lamaro, he'll have a couple of ugly ones,

685
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: but if he has three or four pretty next level ones,

686
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: then you're in trouble. Well, and Buffalo has given up

687
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: more catches to tight ends than any team in the league,

688
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: so you know they're they're Mark Andrews when he's part

689
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: of that passing game and central to it, the pretty

690
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 1: good um. Lamar also threw the ugliest interception of the plays.

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Speaker 1: And it will not be tough. And I don't need

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00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: I don't need these backward passes to Marque's Hollywood floor

693
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: for dangerous Hollywood, Florida brown um stepping up that was

694
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 1: grabbing that ball behind his helmet in a one score game.

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00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: That thing was getting through the back of the end

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00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: zone for either a safety or recovery for a touchdown.

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00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about how Josh Allen got lucky

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00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: on that on that fumble, we're told we're talking about

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00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 1: a totally different narrative and art to Lamar Jackson's career.

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00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 1: It was wide receiver doesn't bell out on that throw.

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00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: He's a He's a walking example of quarterbacks getting too

702
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: much credit for wins and too much blame for losses.

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00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: I thought he actually played fine last year in the division. Obviously,

704
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: you can't turn the ball over like like they did.

705
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,840
Speaker 1: But it's like he had a basically right now, he

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00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: had an average Lamar Jackson game, which is really good,

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00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,879
Speaker 1: and and everyone else around and right now I think

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00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 1: is playing at a higher problem is that's not how

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00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 1: coverage of football I know. But he's like a good example, like,

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00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: is there really that much difference between Lamar for like

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00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,359
Speaker 1: right now and the way he played in that game

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00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: a year ago? I don't think so. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: uh pause halftime, uh and spend through the news. What's

714
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: going on on the coaching carousel and in other places

715
00:34:56,680 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 1: some changes on coaching staffs of by eliminated teams from

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Speaker 1: the postseason. We'll start with Ryan schotten Schottenheimer, who was

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00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: out in Seattle. They part ways citing quote philosophical differences. Uh,

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00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: this offense in his three seasons, you know, it was

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00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,920
Speaker 1: pretty hot and cold. But it was as hot as

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Speaker 1: any offense in the league in the first half of

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00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: this year. Um the hashtag let Russ cook era. But

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00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: the collapsed in the second hit the second half, and

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00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: then what happened in the playoffs dooms Schottenheimer. And I

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00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: just want to say, like I love Troy Aikman, Um,

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00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: but it did It felt so simplified. I left me

726
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: almost angry when he said during the telecast UM last

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00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: weekend that the decision was made when the Seattle defense

728
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: was so bad in the first half that Pete Carle said, oh,

729
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: we have to stop this. We're changing the offense to

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00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: fix the defense. It felt so simplistic. I would really

731
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: love to know how this actually happened, uh and led

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00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: to the collapse, because it had to be more than

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00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: just a scheme change. It just seemed like so many

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00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,240
Speaker 1: things went wrong. They were still, you know, passing pretty

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00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: heavily on early downs, and they it's not like they

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00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: totally went away from it. They just were worse. I

737
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: think I think there's a pretty strong argument that the

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00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: early season success was based on a number of unsustainable,

739
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: amazing deep shot plays that you can't really scheme. And

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00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: he played a bunch of division opponents who know how

741
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: to how to stop him, and uh, it's just there

742
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: aren't that many open receivers. And but Russell Wilson was playing,

743
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: you know, really poorly that game that they lost to

744
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: the Giants twelve to seventeen. I mean, there were whispers

745
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: and there were a couple of comments from people in

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00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: Seattle that said that others kind of mimic that, and

747
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: we're able to use that. I mean, they went out

748
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: and scored forty points the next week, but that was

749
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: against the Jets. But they didn't. They were not the

750
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: same offense other than that down the stretch. And I mean,

751
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: if you were a Rams fan, though, you've got to

752
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: be loving this because there's nothing sweeter than beating a

753
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,879
Speaker 1: divisional opponent like the Rams did in the playoffs. And

754
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 1: what comes out of it is total k us for

755
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: Seattle and the Seahawks. Everyone asking if Pete Carroll's like

756
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: falling off a tree branch at this point, and like

757
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:10,680
Speaker 1: the scheme's changing, we're firing coordinators. I mean, it's just it's, um,

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00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 1: it's pretty ugly. A few things jumble my brain more

759
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: than when someone says the score of a sports game

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00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 1: and it's the lower score first, as you just did.

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00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: You said twelve to seventeen, and my brain is still recovery.

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00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: You want to know why I did that? Because I

763
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: went to I because I wanted to be accurate, which

764
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: at least I was accurate in terms of these score

765
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,600
Speaker 1: But I went to Pro Football Reference and I went

766
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: to Seattle's page, so they list Seattle's score first, um

767
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: to suggest that they were the losers. But then I

768
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 1: read it to you, and so I'm the loser because

769
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 1: I said it that where I'm the loser because I

770
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: I blocked up the Chiefs And I've been feeling Mark's

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00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: uh you know, Mark and I were on good footing

772
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: until now. Now. No, I couldn't be less annoyed at you.

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00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: I think it's great that you did so, Mark, how

774
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: about this in terms of correcting um yourself? Who? How

775
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: do you pronounce the last name of the departed Steelers

776
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Randy I say, Randy Fichner, all right, the

777
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,560
Speaker 1: Steelers and other news will not bring back offensive coordinator

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00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: Randy Pietner. By the way, if I ever become the

779
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: host of the show, will never happen. I'm going to

780
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: set you up for so many little trick questions that

781
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: guarantee you had no idea how to say that, but

782
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: you let you will allow me to tumble over that

783
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: on a show that someone right now in like uh,

784
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: Scotland is listening to thinking that guy is an idiot. Um,

785
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: I will find a way to get back at you.

786
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:39,400
Speaker 1: I promised you. I really do think I've always said this.

787
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,759
Speaker 1: I think in the off season we should do a show.

788
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: Put Cessler in the host chair. I'll be in the

789
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: Sessler chair. I don't know what we'll do. Maybe maybe

790
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:52,280
Speaker 1: Greg will produce. Ricky will be in the Greg chair

791
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: and we'll just mix it up, and then that would

792
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: be a great spot for revenge. Mark start to plot it. Uhickener,

793
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: Uh is not coming back. This isn't a firing because

794
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:08,240
Speaker 1: his contract was up. But Pittsburgh's another offense that everything

795
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: was coming They were eleven or oh and big Ben

796
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 1: was um having a really nice season and then the

797
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: Wheels came off, they lost four their final uh five

798
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: regular season games and then lost obviously Cleveland Browns. And

799
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: so he's out and the Steelers under Mike Tomlin. You know,

800
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: Tomin's not going anywhere. They've had three head coaches since

801
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine. But changes were coming, Greg, and they're

802
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: starting on the offensive side. I feel like that the

803
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,279
Speaker 1: pink slips started to be written the minute that Mike

804
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: Silver went on NFL Network and and said that Ben

805
00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:43,240
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger was telling people that he started drawing up plays

806
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: because the plays they were calling wasn't working. And I mean,

807
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: that's not too suckle, not too subtle from your your

808
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterback, and by the way, also not

809
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,160
Speaker 1: too subtle from you Gregg throwing the Big Ben under

810
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: the bus as you always do in every other in

811
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: that in that sort of case, Yeah, I loved I

812
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: loved watching Big then play for all these years. But

813
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 1: I don't like how you try to shift blame. That's

814
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: not that's not what you want out of your leaders.

815
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: But this has kind of distracted from Mike Tomlins defense

816
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,399
Speaker 1: absolutely collapsing down the stretch too. It's not it wasn't

817
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 1: just the offense was not just the urban Meyer and

818
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,680
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Looks like this thing might happen. ESPN

819
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: reported that the former Ohio State and Florida Florida coach

820
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: will be the jaguars next head coach. This thing is

821
00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: not official, but the negotiations have been reported reportedly been

822
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: in the works for over a month, and uh, we'll

823
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 1: see now, Mark if they if they get past the

824
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: finish line, it's a flashy higher. It makes a lot

825
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: of sense. Obviously they're gonna bring in Trevor Lawrence as well, uh,

826
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: to reboot the machine. Whether it works, we'll see. Urban

827
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: Meyer has been out of the game a long time

828
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,759
Speaker 1: and he's never been a coach on any level in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I think it's one of those hires where

830
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: kind of like when Nick Saban went to the NFL

831
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: or Steve spur Your, um, uh, Chip Kelly to some

832
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: degree where it is going to be so under the

833
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: microscope because urban Meyer and you know, we aren't huge

834
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 1: college guys, but I feel like I've been hearing about

835
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: urban Meyer for decades and have never equated him with

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00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean, for obvious reasons. He's reigned in college,

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00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 1: and he's been through a lot of UM ups and

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00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: downs and controversies, you know, off the field, with some

839
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: stuff that happened in Ohio State. Um, this is a

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00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: polarizing higher. But he apparently, like is UH, was very

841
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: interested in coaching Trevor Lawrence. So if you're a Jaguars fan, UM,

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00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: getting Trevor Lawrence is one and and the coach matters

843
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:40,279
Speaker 1: a ton UM. I wonder where we'll be three hour,

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00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: three years from now with with this kind of a higher.

845
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,959
Speaker 1: But um, Jacksonville fans, from where you were a month

846
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: ago to where you are now, I mean, it's a

847
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 1: completely different headspace, and it's one filled with um new

848
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: waves of hope. I mean for a team that just

849
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 1: had no future a few months ago, all right, and

850
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: real quickly, Brad Holmes is hired as UH the new

851
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: general manager of the Detroit Lions. He's the former director

852
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: of College Scouting UM in Los Angeles for the Rams,

853
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: and the Broncos reach a deal with George Patton to

854
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,840
Speaker 1: be their new general manager. He spent the last thirteen

855
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: years with the Vikings. He signs a six year deal

856
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 1: to replace John Elway as GM. John goes I guess

857
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: further upstairs and as the football's are, if you will.

858
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: That's what's happening in the week Factor. Greg. Do you

859
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: have anything about Patton you want to? Oh? Yeah, I'm

860
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: a huge patent night. I mean, this changes everything. And

861
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: he's been doing interviews for years. He I mean, that

862
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: is a tough job GM. With Elway not just still

863
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: in the building and not in some ceremonial role, he

864
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: is going to be all over General Patton. It's funny.

865
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: I've been reading some of these insidery reports. I don't know, man,

866
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: it sounded like Elway was more like I'm trying to

867
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: get out of here and just chill. And the Broncos

868
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: were like, can you stay around another year? And he

869
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, sure, but um you're you're all good?

870
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,479
Speaker 1: You know how higher the GM, it sounds like he's

871
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: just kind of over. I don't think he'll be there

872
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: two years now. He's a competitive man. We'll see, We'll

873
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: see if he's able to stay out of the kitchen.

874
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: All right, Let's now move into the NFC and start

875
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 1: with a great old showdown between old quarterbacks the NFC

876
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,640
Speaker 1: South the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, coming off that win over

877
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:31,399
Speaker 1: the Washington football team last Saturday night. They now head

878
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: to the super Dome to face the number two seed Saints,

879
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: who didn't get a bye, but they got something close

880
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: to it. With the Bears. It turned into essentially like

881
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: a full squad scrimmage and then they won nine And

882
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 1: we're just happy that game is over and we don't

883
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: have to talk about it ever again. And now what

884
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: we get is two of the most prolific passers ever

885
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: to play football. Two men. Brady forty three years old.

886
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 1: Breeze I believe is forty one. It could be the

887
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: last time and likely is the last time they'll ever

888
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: be on the same field together, with Breeze heading towards retirement.

889
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: But Mark will start this way. You never know what

890
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: Tom Brady either. Now, Brady has been incredible UM this season,

891
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: and he was good again last week. UM. But the

892
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: assumption here, obviously is that Brady is going to continue

893
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: to thrive and be in this situation, UH for years

894
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:25,720
Speaker 1: to come. You just never know. There's so many outside factors,

895
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: so they're they're absolutely needs to be urgency for forty

896
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: three or forty three year old quarterbacks. You may not

897
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: never get to the divisional round again, great matchup between

898
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: two old kings. Well, it's I think it's for the

899
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: reason that we watched the NFL for for the chance

900
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: to see UM at this late stage in their careers.

901
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: You know, they're not that different than our age. They're

902
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 1: older than you guys, uh and you know, you know,

903
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: I mean, most guys that are forty two and forty

904
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: three are lumps of clay at this point. And these

905
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: guys are still doing what they're doing. It's impressive. Um.

906
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, I think you know, since maybe mid December

907
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: is in the best one of the best quarterbacks in

908
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: the league, if not the best, I mean, and his

909
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: deep the deep ball is back. And so when I

910
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,399
Speaker 1: look at what happened in Week nine when they were

911
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: shredded thirty eight to three. UM, even week one, Week

912
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: one I throw out. But the Week nine UM shredding

913
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,360
Speaker 1: of Tampa Bay, it concerns me because I think the

914
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: Saints on both sides, like their offensive line and defensive line,

915
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: you'd have to say, are big advantages that they can

916
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 1: they can force their will will on teams and win

917
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: in different ways. Um. But but the Bucks have changed,

918
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:35,760
Speaker 1: They've evolved, and it's guys like Antonio brown Um really

919
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: flowering in this offense, and we've seen it with Rob

920
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: Gronkowski and I don't love their ground game. But this

921
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: is a matchup where it's like, it's like a Pro

922
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:46,720
Speaker 1: Bowl of wide receivers if you look at both sides.

923
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: And so I don't think Tampa Bay is gonna put

924
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: up three points in this one. I think this is

925
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a completely different looking game. But the Saints

926
00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: to me, match up well and have the advantage. Yeah,

927
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: It's one of those where it's like, is it about matchups?

928
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: There is about who's playing better right now? Because the

929
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: matchups say Saints just because Peyton's four against Arians, you

930
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: know the way that game played out. A lot of

931
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: these matchups go back before Arians was even there, Like

932
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 1: Marshall Lattimore's kind of dominated Mike Evans his entire career,

933
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: Trey Hendrickson, you know, dominated Donovan Smith in the in

934
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: those matchups and really kind of destroy things. Cam Jordan's

935
00:46:23,239 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: probably gave Tristan Worths, who has been great at tackle

936
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:30,239
Speaker 1: all year, his worst game. So like those matchups seem

937
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: to favor New Orleans, so does the coaching matchup. But

938
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 1: then you just like look at it, and it's like

939
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is way better than Drew Brees, like way

940
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: better right now, Like it's almost underrated how well Brady's playing,

941
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: because yeah, I tweeted something out about it, and it's like,

942
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 1: we'll look at who they pay, who who they played.

943
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, show me the other team. Okay, the

944
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: Lions are terrible. Did anyone else put up six straight

945
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 1: touchdowns against them? No, so relative to what everyone else did.

946
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,439
Speaker 1: Know the throws Brady's making they played at they played

947
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: the number three d v O A defense last year.

948
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:04,959
Speaker 1: I mean last week they put up thirty one points

949
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: and they went one for five in the red zone.

950
00:47:06,320 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: They could have put up forty. The throws he's making

951
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: are outrageous. He's playing so well. Um Brown is more incorporated.

952
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: He had just joined the team. Godwin's playing better. So,

953
00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:21,480
Speaker 1: if anything, I think Brady's it's almost over. So they

954
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: played the Falcons face. Okay, Falcons shut down the Falcons

955
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: shut down Patrick Mahomes the week after Brady killed him.

956
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 1: The Chiefs aren't even try right now, exactly exactly, that's

957
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: what they say that, that's what they say. Okay, they

958
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,560
Speaker 1: shut down Herbert too. I just I don't know. I

959
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,279
Speaker 1: trust the offense, and that's how always I always picked

960
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: these games. And well I'm not picking against Brady right now. Yeah,

961
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: I I love um, I love the way Brady's playing

962
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 1: right now. And to some statistical backing from our great

963
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: NFL research team, uh, that really paint the picture of

964
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: how much the Bucks have changed since that three um

965
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: lowest moment against the Saints. The Bucks have average thirty

966
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: four point one points per game, uh nearly four totally

967
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: yards per games since their Week nine lost to New Orleans,

968
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: including the playoffs. When they lost to the Saints, they

969
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: had the three points, of course, and a hundred ninety

970
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,279
Speaker 1: four total yards. They I mean, Brady was angry. They

971
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 1: had no chance to get anything going. And now though

972
00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is the most total yards and second most

973
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 1: points per game in the NFL since Week ten, but

974
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: it's also marking unstoppable force versus an removable object game

975
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 1: because the Saints have allowed sixteen point two points per

976
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,680
Speaker 1: game since Week ten, including the playoffs, so they're playing

977
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: great football. You could say nothing's changed for them since

978
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: that that most recent matchup on the defensive side of

979
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: the ball, So why not why shouldn't we think now

980
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady and this offense will come down to

981
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: earth a little bit when they face a familiar foe.

982
00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I come down to earth from where they've been. Sure,

983
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll be more competitive than than that

984
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: last one. Um, it's tough to be a team three times.

985
00:48:57,680 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: Although I don't know what the science behind that is.

986
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: I think to do anything, it kind of says it's

987
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: it's relatively easy for what it's worth. Let's blow that

988
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,560
Speaker 1: narrative up. That's an absurd I can hear that from everyone,

989
00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: and it's the numbers say that that, Yeah, they have

990
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: the overwhelming the third the third time you play them,

991
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: they have the overwhelming advantage, usually because they're a better

992
00:49:16,280 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: team usually right, well, right, that's got to be. But

993
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: you would assume that you're meeting in the playoffs if

994
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: you're doing it a third time, so both to be good.

995
00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: I think it's big that Devon White is back for

996
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 1: the Bucks. He's been really disruptive. I love his speed. Um,

997
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:30,959
Speaker 1: he can cause some chaos. I mean that the Bucks

998
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,719
Speaker 1: pass rush could give some problems to Breeze. You've got

999
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to do that. But the

1000
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: You know, this Saints offensive line is one of I

1001
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: I kind of like a defense that's been as good

1002
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: as the Saints have um over the back half of

1003
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,800
Speaker 1: the season. The way their offensive line is playing, I

1004
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: kind of just cling to those things. I don't think

1005
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:50,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna be I could see like six kind of

1006
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: type game. NFC South teams are always wacky. I mean,

1007
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: you know, please, I'm worried about you know, if the

1008
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: Bucks defense way more than the offense. The defense is

1009
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: quietly kind of falling apart um. They don't have much

1010
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: of a pass rush. To me, that's the big that's

1011
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: the biggest difference right now between right now and early

1012
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: in the year and last year, Shack Barrett has about

1013
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: a third as many QB hits and sacks. You picked

1014
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: the wrong year to get on the old Shack Barrett. Right,

1015
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,399
Speaker 1: it's not happening. And this is a tough matchup. So

1016
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: last week, because they can't generate pressure, they're like sending

1017
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,400
Speaker 1: crazy blitz is and Taylor Heineke is lighting him up.

1018
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: That worries me. Um, But can the Saints take advantage there?

1019
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: They just haven't had many big plays. Even last week.

1020
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: It's like five point one yards per play moving the ball.

1021
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: Breeze has one game out of his last seven where

1022
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: he's thrown for more than seven yards per tempt. So

1023
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: it's dink and dunk and dink, and maybe that works

1024
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: and he's starting By the time you listen to this.

1025
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:55,359
Speaker 1: He turns forty two on Friday, and when he got

1026
00:50:55,360 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: interviewed after the win um uh Sunday, it sounds like

1027
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: he's already a broadcaster. Like he actually sounded like a

1028
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 1: dude doing like a hit uh for NBC during halftime

1029
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: of a Sunday night football game in week nine. He's like,

1030
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,400
Speaker 1: already there. You know, I don't want to play the

1031
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: So I know we talked about on this pod where

1032
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: Bruce arians he's still plugged in. I think Drew Brees

1033
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: is one foot already in retirement. I mean, isn't more

1034
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: fired up than ever. I mean, he does not want

1035
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 1: his career to end, by the way, of course, losing

1036
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: losing the great things to come to losing that. Tom Brady, Hey,

1037
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: I've been in the shadow of you my whole career.

1038
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with like numbers, but you know, everyone thinks

1039
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: of Brady as the ultimate winner, and my career is

1040
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: gonna end at home with a loss to you in Tampa.

1041
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 1: I just put in uniform that would be rough, but

1042
00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 1: it would be I don't know, the opposite, right, maybe

1043
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: Sean Payton. I think Sean Payton could win this game,

1044
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,359
Speaker 1: you know, on his own. You're right and the yeah,

1045
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: you got everything. It's all about kind of recalibrating. Um.

1046
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: When you talk about the Saints, the what Drew brees

1047
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: in the offense is where they factor in in terms

1048
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: of the whole Saints. The Saints do here, It's just

1049
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: a part of it. It's not the main driving force.

1050
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: I like the Saints. I'm sticking with him as my

1051
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: NFC Super Bowl pick uh in a fuel goal game

1052
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:17,839
Speaker 1: to get past the Bucks. But I don't feel good

1053
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: about this one, to be honest with you. I really

1054
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: think it's a game that can go the other way

1055
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 1: very easily. But I am picking the Saints by a

1056
00:52:24,840 --> 00:52:28,319
Speaker 1: field goal four. We just reminded me I took the

1057
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: Saints in that like super Bowl challenge to make the

1058
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but I'm picking the Bucks this week. So

1059
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: you know that's the problem with these things, Like you're covering,

1060
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: You're covered either way, you know, Like I picked I

1061
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 1: have Saints twenty four, bucks twenty one and overtime. Um,

1062
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,800
Speaker 1: but I'll tell you one like, I need Will Lutts

1063
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: to be a little bit more. He's it seems like

1064
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: happening the Kicker Club at to to twelve in the

1065
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,279
Speaker 1: morning before these games. But Will Lots has not been

1066
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: um force of old. Who did they just sign? They

1067
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: just signed? Yeah, they signed a kicker this week just

1068
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: to have in reserve, just because uh, Let's has been

1069
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 1: a little Let's has been. He's been revoked. His open

1070
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: bar privileges has been have been revoked. He's not allowed

1071
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: in the champagne room. So right now he's just like

1072
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: the nerd at the end of the bar, hoping that

1073
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: a girl will talk to him. It's Blair. It's Blair

1074
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:22,200
Speaker 1: wh they have Blair Ross not now. You don't tell me.

1075
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,600
Speaker 1: I have a kicker problem. And the way to solve

1076
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: it is let's get Blair Walsh on the field in

1077
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 1: a playoff game. Well, it's not happening this week, but

1078
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: he he was on their practice He's on their practice

1079
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,760
Speaker 1: squad right now. Blair Walsh. What what sort of female

1080
00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: um inhabitants are allowed into the Kicker Club? I was.

1081
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,240
Speaker 1: I was. I thought it was just kickers hanging out together.

1082
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,279
Speaker 1: How would you decipher who's allowed in? Well, there is

1083
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: like a big undercurrent, bubbling undercurrent of groupies, kicker groupies,

1084
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: a big undercurrent, and uh, that is what we're talking about.

1085
00:53:55,440 --> 00:54:00,239
Speaker 1: Just think like led Zeppelin on tour nineteen. All you

1086
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: can tell me more about it. Blair Walsh um, of

1087
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 1: course missed like a nine yard field goal to cost

1088
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: the Vikings a playoff when he gets the Seahawks about

1089
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 1: five years ago. So I don't know, man, that's how

1090
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,320
Speaker 1: you brought in the building. I mean in like negative

1091
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,080
Speaker 1: eighty degree weather. But fair enough, the ball probably weighed

1092
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,439
Speaker 1: like two fifty pounds. It was a two yard kick.

1093
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 1: All he had to do is touch it and it

1094
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: was going over. I mean, lots would have to go like,

1095
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:28,399
Speaker 1: oh for three in a win or something. I think

1096
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,799
Speaker 1: to see Blair Walsh next week. But um, alright, which

1097
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: takes us to the final game we're going to discuss

1098
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,359
Speaker 1: it is the other NFC tilt to decide who goes

1099
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 1: to the championship game? Mark, how about this when you

1100
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: if you want to look at it like this as

1101
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: a Browns fan, because it's been a long time for me.

1102
00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:49,919
Speaker 1: But divisional round weekend, when your team's in it, your

1103
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: two wins away from the super Bowl, that just get

1104
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: two more dubs. It's it's a lot to ask the

1105
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,640
Speaker 1: club feel surreal territory. That's what I'm trying to be

1106
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: off to mystic? Why go into this right? I'm with

1107
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,399
Speaker 1: you all right here we are, I'm with you. You picked.

1108
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: That's why I think it's just my guilt coming through.

1109
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:13,240
Speaker 1: I'm really reconsidering because I think my my heart actually

1110
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 1: believes the Rams have less of a chance to win. Um,

1111
00:55:16,560 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 1: but I had to take one of those. No, Greg,

1112
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: stick with the chief. Let's hit it. Packers and three Rams,

1113
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 1: eleven and six Again. I am now essentially a commentator

1114
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 1: in the lock competition, So I'll just tell you right

1115
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: off the bat, I'm picking the Packers and I'm locking

1116
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:37,360
Speaker 1: them up here at home, coming off the by against

1117
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: Jared Goff most likely, who has been practicing in full

1118
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: John Bulford obviously is in a tough spot coming off

1119
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:47,719
Speaker 1: that stinger. Do I do I start here? Mark? Do

1120
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 1: I really feel good? And all due respect to the

1121
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 1: Rams on defense, but do I really feel like Jared

1122
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: Goff is gonna make enough plays in this game, playing

1123
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: and potentially snowy conditions in lamb field, uh, needing to

1124
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: throw the ball uh, and then a matchup against opposite

1125
00:56:06,200 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. I do not feel good about that at all.

1126
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna need something very special. You're gonna need some

1127
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: Brown type Brown's type circumstances, a snap going over a

1128
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:20,160
Speaker 1: quarterback's head, uh, interceptions on tip balls for this to

1129
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:22,960
Speaker 1: be a game. To me, what do you think I'm

1130
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: with you? Uh? I mean, we've gotten word that John

1131
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: Wilford is actually out, so that at least settles um

1132
00:56:28,640 --> 00:56:32,399
Speaker 1: the drama around the quarterback situation and everything we've seen

1133
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: from Jared Goff and everything that we're hearing from you

1134
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: know in subtext and decisions made by Sean McVeigh says

1135
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 1: that your lack of confidence in that quarterback is felt

1136
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,759
Speaker 1: by various people inside the organization. I think right now,

1137
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: this is a quarterback with notoriously small hands. Um, he

1138
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 1: is a fumbler. He throws interceptions terrible times. I don't

1139
00:56:54,719 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: know about doll Hamman, I don't know what size the

1140
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 1: doll is, but um, i'd be concerned. The one thing

1141
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: is I think that's getting a little forgotten in what

1142
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,719
Speaker 1: I'm hearing day today, is this like Rams defense and

1143
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: legitimately is so pumped up that like this matchup will

1144
00:57:09,400 --> 00:57:12,080
Speaker 1: be titanic. It could be. It could also be twenty

1145
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: one to three UM at halftime. If the Rams offense

1146
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: can produce I think that their ground game. If you

1147
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: get the good version of Cam Akers, you've got something

1148
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 1: going on there. If you get a mistake free version

1149
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: of Jared Goff, they can hang in a game. If

1150
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,959
Speaker 1: you have your Darius Williams of the world, Aaron Donald says,

1151
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: he's healthy. If if you're if Jalen Ramsey can erase

1152
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: Davante Adams to some degree, Um, that's TRUEY, that's it.

1153
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the way I never thought we'd

1154
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: say back in September that the bigger coaching storyline for

1155
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: the Rams is not Sean McVeigh, but Brandon Staley, who

1156
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: has become um like the the patron saint of think

1157
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 1: pieces and people being obsessed with assistant coaches as they

1158
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: are coordinated. It's Brandon Staley right now, And I mean

1159
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: the bigger task is probably Sean McVeigh figuring out how

1160
00:57:58,800 --> 00:58:01,520
Speaker 1: to get this offense um to compete in a game

1161
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: where they might have to score a bunch of points, right.

1162
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 1: I mean, the Packers defense quietly finished the season much

1163
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: stronger than than they did um early in the year,

1164
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: including that Titans game. And I think an average defense

1165
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: right now is shutting down this Rams group and so

1166
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:22,520
Speaker 1: that it's just a tough it's a tough margin. Fair.

1167
00:58:22,560 --> 00:58:25,680
Speaker 1: There was nothing we saw from golf last week, um

1168
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: that I found any different than what we saw before.

1169
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:30,120
Speaker 1: It's part of it is his thumb. A couple of

1170
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,360
Speaker 1: balls came out wobbly, so that's that's not on him,

1171
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,600
Speaker 1: but it's what he's playing with. But more of it

1172
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:38,439
Speaker 1: was his processing, always a little bit of a beat late.

1173
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 1: You know, the two big plays they got were a

1174
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,480
Speaker 1: little flukey, a little hard to repeat. It was that

1175
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:45,960
Speaker 1: that scrambled by golf that that led to the long

1176
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: acres you know, run on the short pass and then

1177
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: that kind of moonball that Cuff came down with. It's tough.

1178
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: It's tough to win a game like that, but there's

1179
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:56,840
Speaker 1: I think there's at least a chance that Brandon Staley,

1180
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: the man that McVeigh hired because brand and Staley was

1181
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,200
Speaker 1: best equipped to stop a Sean McVeigh offense, that's why

1182
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: he hired him, is equipped to stop this Packers offense.

1183
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: Somewhat there, Aaron Jones is gonna have a chance, I think,

1184
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:12,760
Speaker 1: to have a big game because it's all gonna be

1185
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: about the coverage and it's all gonna be about stopping

1186
00:59:16,560 --> 00:59:19,000
Speaker 1: the Packers passing game, and they'll probably live with Aaron

1187
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: Jones going off if the Rams were to pull off

1188
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: the upset. I just feel like that's what everybody would

1189
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: be talking about Monday morning. What a masterpiece put together

1190
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: by the Rams coaching staff who figure out a way

1191
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: to defuse this Aaron Rodgers offense and uh scheme up

1192
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: a way to get enough points. I also like not

1193
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: to pile on um the Rams in terms of my

1194
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: feelings about how this game is gonna play out. And

1195
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: we have a very special guest who's just about to

1196
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: join us, who is gonna be very mad at me. Um.

1197
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 1: I know Aaron Donald said this week he doesn't him

1198
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: feel his ribide or anymore, but that's what guys say

1199
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 1: when it's the playoffs, and he's obviously no way he's

1200
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: gonna miss this game. Aaron Donald's the best defensive player

1201
00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:58,840
Speaker 1: in the league. You might be the best player in

1202
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: the league, depending on who you talked to. But that

1203
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: cartilage injury he suffered uh in his rib cage was

1204
01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: bad enough that it took him off the field for

1205
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: the entire second half of a hotly contested game in

1206
01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 1: the wild card round. And even if and you know

1207
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,960
Speaker 1: he's being managed this week, and that makes sense, But

1208
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: once you're going full speed and you're lunging and attacking

1209
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:22,919
Speaker 1: and falling on quarterbacks and engaging in hand to hand

1210
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: battle with offensive lineman, I don't feel great that that

1211
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: injury is not gonna pop up again. And if it

1212
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: pops up and he reaggravates it, is it gonna be

1213
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: bad enough where it takes him off the field entirely

1214
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: Like that, There is a scenario, And now let's bring

1215
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:39,280
Speaker 1: her in, Lakisha, Come on in the great Lakisa. Jackson

1216
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: Westling beautiful as always. I like the new hairstyle. There

1217
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: is a scenario here, Lakisha where Aaron Donald exits in

1218
01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: the second quarter with a reaggravation of his injury. Jared

1219
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: Golf can't throw the football. I guess like Borders is

1220
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:58,160
Speaker 1: the backup, and this game just goes completely sideways and

1221
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,520
Speaker 1: becomes the blowout of the visional round. He can tell

1222
01:01:00,520 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: me why this premonition that's coming into my mind is

1223
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 1: a bunch of baloney. Well, I will say this, I

1224
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:10,120
Speaker 1: agree exactly what you said about Aaron Donald. That freaks

1225
01:01:10,160 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: me out because especially playing in the cold, we don't

1226
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: know how that's going to react. But you have to

1227
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,560
Speaker 1: remember that it's Aaron Donald. So even if he's at

1228
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: what could be everybody else is a dent. So if

1229
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: he's going to be out there, I know he's going

1230
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: to give it his all. So that's the number one

1231
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,439
Speaker 1: thing that if he's doing great, then no, we're doing

1232
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: great and our defense can pull us through. Offense is

1233
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:35,440
Speaker 1: where it gets a bit scary for me. So right

1234
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: like Donald, potentially you know, Troy Hitman said he's the

1235
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 1: best player he's ever seen, better than like not on

1236
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:44,280
Speaker 1: that he's at his absolute peak. So you would if

1237
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: I had to guess he probably has a broken rib.

1238
01:01:46,200 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: You know that what you know that they're not going

1239
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,840
Speaker 1: to announce that that's a problem. But if if he

1240
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: was right, their defensive line has been playing good, you know,

1241
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 1: not just him, and you know the Packers are without

1242
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:58,440
Speaker 1: boxed the area. They've got a great offer line, but

1243
01:01:58,920 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 1: their guard that they put in there, they got Billy

1244
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:03,840
Speaker 1: Turner and and Rick Wagner. I mean, you got Leonard

1245
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: flot like you could you could see it. And then Ramsey,

1246
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 1: to me is the bigger X factory. Ramsey talks a

1247
01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 1: lot of talk. This is the toughest matchup you can

1248
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: possibly have. If you can if you can actually shut

1249
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: down Davante Adams and the Packers are the most number

1250
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: one receiver dependent team in the league, then you got

1251
01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:22,480
Speaker 1: a shot. I guess I gotta see it before I

1252
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: believe I gotta see it before I believe it. That's

1253
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: like the one thing I'm really looking forward to watch.

1254
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 1: And it's like I'm hoping it's not a blowout game,

1255
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,240
Speaker 1: but like my eyes are gonna stay on um Davante

1256
01:02:31,360 --> 01:02:34,080
Speaker 1: and Ramsey. I think you have reason to think that

1257
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:37,040
Speaker 1: Ramsey can do this. I mean, it's it's kind of

1258
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: been like matchup free. He's just been that dominant. I

1259
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:41,760
Speaker 1: thought there was a moment in the last week's game

1260
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:43,520
Speaker 1: where you know, and they and we talked about this

1261
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 1: before La Keysha that there there's no better feeling if

1262
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: you're a Rams fan than sending the Seahawks into utter

1263
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: turmoil that you know results in firings and may Ham

1264
01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 1: and twitter post from you know, Russell Wilson. But there

1265
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:59,640
Speaker 1: was a moment where Ramsey is just wagging his finger

1266
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: all over the place, and it's like there are times

1267
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 1: when he can be annoying um when he was on

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01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, for instance, but he is at the height

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01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: of his powers and gives you hope in this game,

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01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 1: I would wonder, and I I hate to have to

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01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: do this because like the show is about to end,

1272
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,240
Speaker 1: but I haven't done my lock yet and maybe if

1273
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: you could, Lakisha, just cover your ears real quick. Just

1274
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 1: for the record, I have to lock up the Packers.

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01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Uh, Chris is doing the same, so I

1276
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: don't know about locking. Don't say that though, but against

1277
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: the world, Lakisha is legit RAMS fan and she's one

1278
01:03:31,880 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: of the She's an unusual RAMS fan and in fact,

1279
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:38,440
Speaker 1: let me read a pin to tweet atop her fine profile,

1280
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:42,120
Speaker 1: which you can get at Lasia Jackson and Lakeisha. By

1281
01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: the way, in the decition to doing great work for

1282
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 1: NFL and being the rock of all rocks for Chris

1283
01:03:46,760 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: wessling Um has her NFL Uncorked video series, which you

1284
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:54,440
Speaker 1: need to check out. Here's the tweet. Going from a St.

1285
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 1: Louis RAMS fan to an l A Rams fan is brutal.

1286
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 1: It's like getting back together with an X that all

1287
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: of your friends hate. Sigh. Lakisha is a St. Louis

1288
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: native who moved to l A and then the team

1289
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 1: followed her here, which is very unusual and unique. Now

1290
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 1: that enough time has passed, you still have some of

1291
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 1: that residual guilt or issues with, you know, friends that

1292
01:04:16,600 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: hate your ex. Not not anymore. But I will say

1293
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: for the first like year or so, it was really hard.

1294
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 1: People thought that I knew something when I moved out here,

1295
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: and it's just like no, like that's you know, I

1296
01:04:29,280 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: was not an insider. That did not happen on purpose.

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01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,440
Speaker 1: But even like with the first you know, one or

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01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: two years we were even getting good. I was very

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01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:40,240
Speaker 1: very hesitant to like post pictures and say too much

1300
01:04:40,240 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 1: because it just it was hard and I and I

1301
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,400
Speaker 1: felt bad. I wasn't you know, I was sad for

1302
01:04:45,520 --> 01:04:47,760
Speaker 1: my city. But you know, after a while I had

1303
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: to post something saying like hey, I gotta live my

1304
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: life and these are my boys. So ridding hard for them.

1305
01:04:54,720 --> 01:04:57,160
Speaker 1: L A. Rams you know, you don't know, you don't

1306
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: need that support your happiness. Let you know you have

1307
01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 1: to go through Jeff Fisher. You came out. I suffered

1308
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 1: through all that and now I'm in the glory years.

1309
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: You got yourself a husband, you know, a great job.

1310
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:13,120
Speaker 1: You know these people they need, they need to support you. Yes,

1311
01:05:13,160 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: they're happy for me now though I was, I was,

1312
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 1: I was with you on the metaphor. Now I'm not

1313
01:05:17,520 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: tracking it. It's the husband, the rams or is at

1314
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: West now the husband in this case was the rest

1315
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:27,480
Speaker 1: of West, thinking of West Lakisha. How is how is

1316
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,120
Speaker 1: our man right now? He's doing a little bit better

1317
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:33,440
Speaker 1: this week. It's not huge, but we'll take any little,

1318
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: you know, significant like little little progresses, just you know,

1319
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 1: slowly just taking a day by day. It's hard to

1320
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: kind of get too excited because, as you guys have noticed,

1321
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,880
Speaker 1: whenever you know something good will happen, it's like we'll

1322
01:05:46,880 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 1: take two steps forward. So it's just living it each

1323
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: day by day. And I'd have to ask along with that,

1324
01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 1: like link, uh, not sure how many days he's been

1325
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 1: on the earth day? Is he mowing the lawn? Is

1326
01:05:56,960 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: he helping out around the point in his part, I

1327
01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 1: was worried because he had just woke up when I

1328
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: got on him, Like, oh goodness, I hope they can't

1329
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: hear him screaming. But he's growing so fast, Like that's

1330
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 1: the know I said this last time, But every day,

1331
01:06:12,080 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: like he just makes us so happy. And now that

1332
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: he's able to crawl and go wherever he wants to,

1333
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:18,560
Speaker 1: the cutest thing that he does is we ended up

1334
01:06:18,560 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 1: getting a recliner to help Chris sleep. Um, so if

1335
01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: Chris is like up in the recliner his blanket, sometimes

1336
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:27,040
Speaker 1: we'll like hangover on the floor and Link will always

1337
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 1: like crawl over and like put his head on it

1338
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: and like look up and talk to him. And it

1339
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 1: just get that just kids just know, like babies are smart.

1340
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: They know like when you need that extra like loving

1341
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 1: like you know, dead, you know I'm still here. You

1342
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 1: can do this. Yeah, it's obviously been such a challenge

1343
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: for you guys, But having Link in there, I can't imagine.

1344
01:06:45,600 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: That's that's the light of life in the home. Getting

1345
01:06:50,080 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: so much personality. Yeah, I can't. You get to know

1346
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: him better. Unfortunately, the pandemic is keeping us from really

1347
01:06:57,560 --> 01:06:59,880
Speaker 1: getting to no link. But in time we will pick

1348
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 1: a game. We need your pick, Lukisha, No, I'm going

1349
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,000
Speaker 1: Rams there you go see, you gotta talk to shooks.

1350
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: Shooks picking against the Browns for the second great week.

1351
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: What's the final score of this game? Final score? Let's

1352
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: goree's that's the score that Peter King's leading with his

1353
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,920
Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterback Brandon Staley and Sean McVeigh cooked up

1354
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:34,240
Speaker 1: the game plan of their lives. Alright, my fingers crossed.

1355
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:36,880
Speaker 1: Got to give at least a chance of the old

1356
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 1: like Sean McVeigh la fleur matchup. You know, we used

1357
01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: to call him the what who was he? The boy

1358
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 1: boy basically got hired because he was associated with with

1359
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh. And so I'm you know, you're not Sean McVeigh.

1360
01:07:53,840 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: I'm Sean McVeigh. That's what That's what he says, hopefully.

1361
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,400
Speaker 1: But although I did pick the Packers, does he say

1362
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 1: that to? I don't know what he says. I love Casa,

1363
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: by the way, because when I told her about when

1364
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 1: we talked about coming on the pot, she's not like

1365
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 1: excited to talk Rams necessarily. Her first response to just

1366
01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:16,479
Speaker 1: like I'm so excited to see you guys. COVID. This

1367
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 1: is so annoying, but this is like I feel like,

1368
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: you know, we're at Rocko's just chatting it up, talking

1369
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: to football like we normally do. Aren't they like two

1370
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: better times? We'll all be together again sooner rather than later, hopefully.

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01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 1: All Right, that's it. Good show, Lakisha. You are. You're

1372
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: the perfect woman in a lot of ways. Beauty, brains, loyal,

1373
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,760
Speaker 1: no sports. I don't know if she can cook, and

1374
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 1: you cook not as good as West. So you found

1375
01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 1: that you're good at finding the perfect compliments here you're

1376
01:08:50,880 --> 01:08:59,759
Speaker 1: not about the food. West makes love for her, um

1377
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: and away. You're the best, and we'll be back on Well.

1378
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 1: Two things. We have our television show which is not

1379
01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 1: this show. It's a totally different show that's previewing Division

1380
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: Round Weekend that will air on NFL Network tomorrow at

1381
01:09:12,840 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 1: three pm either Eastern or Pacific, and there will be

1382
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:24,519
Speaker 1: six Eastern pasad thing and there will be re eras.

1383
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 1: So just check it out and and DVR it if

1384
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,040
Speaker 1: you're overseas. I think you could track it down on

1385
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 1: International Game Pass. But that's that's just a g that's

1386
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:33,599
Speaker 1: just a guess at some point I'm gonna nail down.

1387
01:09:33,840 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: We're tied up by like rope and um, you know

1388
01:09:36,720 --> 01:09:39,720
Speaker 1: whatever else beyond at six pm on NFL Network. I

1389
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:42,560
Speaker 1: feel like that's a violent coup. I'm given Erica the

1390
01:09:42,600 --> 01:09:44,799
Speaker 1: credit for that. I'm sure she was stumping behind the scenes.

1391
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: And then we'll be back, um hopefully with Chris Westling

1392
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 1: the other Westling on Sunday night for the Divisional Round

1393
01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:55,559
Speaker 1: playoff recap. It is the greatest football weekend of the year,

1394
01:09:55,600 --> 01:09:59,000
Speaker 1: pound for pound, So let's all enjoy it. Everyone, stay safe,

1395
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 1: stay well. And I have a new rule on this podcast,

1396
01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:05,839
Speaker 1: Mark We're playing out every a t N podcast, including

1397
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:10,360
Speaker 1: through the off season with that brown song, until Cleveland's

1398
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: been eliminated from the playoffs. So that's our new outgrow

1399
01:10:13,280 --> 01:10:16,680
Speaker 1: music until Cleveland's gone. That's what it is. All right,

1400
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: Well we'll see I hope it's you know, another eight

1401
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: or nine or ten shows. Please all right, hit it, Ricky,

1402
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:25,640
Speaker 1: all right, Just Dan handsOn signing off for Tis the

1403
01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: Old Boss. I love this long the Quiet Storm and

1404
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: Ricky Hollywood behind the virtual glass until Sundays you goin

1405
01:10:51,439 --> 01:11:03,559
Speaker 1: back leave the round this first detemp, so get on

1406
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 1: the feet and let the games begin to see who

1407
01:11:07,280 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 1: we go again? Well we are gotten never something things

1408
01:11:12,479 --> 01:11:15,679
Speaker 1: we did like the old dog down, then the cord

1409
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 1: he got kids. Now we're gonna make notes in a

1410
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 1: brand crease. Here we go, get you get, don't plus

1411
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:30,200
Speaker 1: and web back on the back, pop rock this shot,

1412
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 1: let them all and shot it out loud we go,

1413
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:44,680
Speaker 1: and it's the breathing grounds. First detemp, So get on

1414
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:48,680
Speaker 1: the field. Let the games they gain. See who we go?

1415
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: We go to play the round? The play its first

1416
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:28,240
Speaker 1: to ten, So get on the wind. At the game begin,

1417
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:36,599
Speaker 1: See we're going, and we didn't we get we get,

1418
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: Well we didn't we don't get. Don't get Maybe you

1419
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: gonna chang so bound back and then it's gonna be good.

1420
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 1: Here we go, cheer we go in. It's the favorite

1421
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:01,120
Speaker 1: round and first to tap, so get go to even

1422
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 1: at the game begin, sham we all gain. Call we

1423
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:13,639
Speaker 1: call again to cleave the whispers toge